ANT 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Viral Hemorrhagic Fever, Interferon Type I, Filoviridae
9 Feb 2016
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Basics focusing on ebola and marburg these viruses dissolve your internal organs death is highly likely in the great majority of cases. Symptoms cold or flu-like illness nausea and vomiting fever seizures bleeding sores anywhere collapse. Ebola and marburg are filoviruses (filament-shaped) highly communicable, affect adults more than children. The two viruses (marburg and ebola) were isolated and named filoviridae. Deforestation brings human contact to new potential hosts of emerging viruses. Diagnosis, treatment and prognosis hemorrhagic fever is a descriptive diagnosis - can be due to many agents cough, weakness, high fever, seizures, bleeding from sores anywhere on face or body. Prognosis extremely poor in early and middle part of epidemic better as epidemic trails off, probably because those most vulnerable have died rapidity of death removes links in the chain of infection. Virus trade off= how is the virus going to survive once everyone dies viral strains are less deadly that allows people to survive.
