Viruses and Diseases: Marburg and Ebola

Frenchman living in Africa who became exposed to a level four virus in Kitum Cave.

Isolated mountain on the border between Uganda and Kenya that holds Kitum Cave.

Located on Mount Elgon and holds level 4 viruses.

<p>Physician at Nairobi Hospital who was infected with a virus after Monet's vomit got in his eyes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He kept caring for patients while he was sick.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Owned the largest private medical practice in East Africa and discovered a positive link to the Marburg virus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Marburg virus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Thread viruses that look alike.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ebola Zaire.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A virus doesn't usually kill its natural host.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Major as a US Army veterinarian who works with viruses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Ebola River.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Expert civilian army scientist for Ebola; runs Ebola program at USAMRIID.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>7 and scientists don't really know much about them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Direct contact with bodily fluids.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rash, bad cold, failure of immune system, projectile vomiting, muscle pain, internal and external bleeding.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Silent, deranged, motionless, not eating, bleeding to death, dilated pupils, distortion of face, bloody nose.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She is a veterinarian and becomes distressed to see a suffering animal.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A small capsule of membranes and proteins containing DNA and RNA.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Infected monkeys were removed for surgery, while healthy monkeys got infected with Ebola because of a virus traveling through the air.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A bio-containment hospital.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>If you failed to come out alive from the slammer, you were taken to a bio-containment morgue.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To not scare the patient, or to not make it open to most of the public.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A store keeper in southern Sudan who was first to die from Ebola Sudan unexpectedly in 1976.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ebola virus that originated from Maridi Hospital, 2x as lethal as Marburg, 50% fatality rate, travels through blood, didn't last long before it vanished.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sprung from the Yambuku Mission Hospital, 2x lethal as Ebola Sudan, attacks tissue, creates blood clots and travels by blood, nearly liquefies every organ.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The nurses nearly ever washed the needles for injections.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Centers for Disease Control (and Prevention).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A young nurse at the Ngaliema Hospital.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She received symptoms from a patient and wandered around the city when she should have been at the hospital.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>None, surprisingly.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The world's population would have drastically decreased and it would have been extremely difficult to control.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It has the ability to wipe out a population.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They treated it as a Level 4 Hot Zone with each station and brought monkeys and guinea pigs to the cave to experiment how they catch the virus from the bats.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An instrument to detect the virus in hope to break out with it eventually.</p> Signup and view all the answers