EBOLA - ZAIRE

PPE – Personal Protection Equiptment

http://youtu.be/LRUA50yjTIg

What is the world is going on?• Who - # infected vs. # dead• What – Genus = Ebolavirus, Family = Filovirus, strains =

Bundibugyo, Zaire, Sudan, Tai Forest, Reston• When – Jan 2014, Guinea (Patient 0)• Why – Why can’t we contain it?• How – Spread through direct contact• Sign & Symptoms: fever, weakness, muscle pain,

headache, sore throat, vomiting, diarrhea, rash, impaired kidney and liver function, internal and external bleeding

• Host – fruit bats

http://youtu.be/xSthap4JULM

History of Epidemics, Vaccines, & Prevention

• What is an epidemic & how is it different from a pandemic? How do they spread?• http://youtu.be/UG8YbNbdaco

• What causes them?! Bacteria and viruses

Notable killers• 1300s – The Black Death• Throughout history - Small Pox• 1918-1919 – Spanish Flu• 1980s – today – AIDS• 1970 – present - Ebola

What do we know?• What do you already know about viruses? – share with

your partner

• Read the first 7 pages of “The Hot Zone”, beginning with “Infectious Area No Unauthorized Entry” to “Caution Biohazard” – Why would the author begin a book with these warning messages?

Keep the following 4 questions in mind:

• As you read pages 14 – 24 with your partner…

1. Right There: What is vomito Negro?

2. Think & Search: What is the pattern of the viruses’ effect on the human body?

3. Author & You: How does Monet’s experience in the ER relate to your own experiences in an ER or some other time when you needed swift attention?

4. On Your Own: If you were seated next to a passenger with these symptoms, what would you do?

• While reading, write (on post its) any question that comes to your mind – put your post it notes on the board when you are done reading

Q&A Time• Addressing the post its• And,• In latin, what do you think “filovirus” means?• What do they look like?• How are ebola and Marburg viruses similar?• How are they different?• How do viruses like Ebola spread and die out?• What can be done to prevent this spread?

PBL – Science or Social• Cell Based Sensor for Detecting Ebola Virus

OR

• Social Implication of Reintroduction For Ebola Survivors