UC 154 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ebola Vaccine, Dialysis, Cytokine Storm
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The assigned readings for this topic are brief and meant to give you a taste of the various issues surrounding this disease. As we are at the tail end of an ebola outbreak, you are going to be able to find many, many recent sources of information on ebola. Through contact with bodily fluids of infected animals or humans. Saliva, feces, semen, breast milk, tears, nasal blood, skin (ex. At risk- people caring for patients, cultural - preparing the deceased for burial) Social stigmas - would go to more traditional healers instead of going to hospitals. Distrust in the government - didn"t believe it was a real thing. Pharmaceutical companies only want to treat those that can pay. Not enough healthcare professionals - ratio was like 1 doctor to every 10,000 people. Cripples the immune cells and incites a cytokine storm.
