LIFESCI 3A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cytokine Storm, Phagocytosis, Only Time
22 Mar 2017
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It can lead to hemorrhaging internally leads to blood loss: spread through many areas in african regions, from 1979 2014, death rate from 1500 individuals 11,000 individuals huge outbreak in 2014. 2014 ebola outbreak in west africa: countries that were really hard hit were guinea, sierra, leona and liberia, skeleton notes number (2014, new notes number (2014 till now) 2014 ebola outbreak in west africa: when the west starts getting affected / threat (cid:374)ow it"s a world (cid:272)risis. Increase in international travel / medical experts travelling to treat abroad: other countries were minimally affected, endemic to countries listed nigeria, spain, uk, us etc Transmission: we are looking at a bat vector fruit bat that carries the virus within the body, they have particular migratory patterns they"re traje(cid:272)tory leads arou(cid:374)d (cid:373)ajor. Symptoms: less than a 2-week period coma, septic shock, eventually internal bleeding and death, 4 stages these stages apply to all primates similar to humans (gorillas, monkeys etc)
