The virus was first introduced to the Motaba community when one of the natives, patient zero, went to build a road into Kinshasa. When he returned to the village he was already sick and drank from the community well. This caused the entire village to become infected as the virus was being spread through salivary exchange. At that time the host species was not known but we later found out it was a monkey that lived in the forest near the village. This monkey was brought to America some years later, and then spat water on Jimbo who was trying to sell it to a pet storeowner, Rudy.
Preston explains the discovery of a new type of Ebola virus at this place that kills the Monkeys imported from the Philippines. The reader is taken through the journey of a medical research institute and their quest to decontaminate the red alert monkey house. The final major part of the book takes us back to Kenya, in Kitum cave, trying to identify the first source of the virus. The book is unique because it is proof that even nonfiction books can evoke emotions among readers, even to an extent more than horror fiction novels. From works of extensive research and conducted interviews, Preston came up with a well arranged, dramatized representation of the findings.
We were dealing with bacteria that has the ability to be harmful and to avoid illness/sickness we need to thoroughly wash our hands and be careful around the bacteria. Another precaution to take was to not cough into or put any bacteria from our bodies into the agar plate. Those bacteria could be extremely dangerous and shouldn’t be cultivated. Observations Located on final page(s) Application Questions 1. The purpose of heating the agar plates in the autoclave prior to inoculating them with microorganisms was to make sure that the lab results were exact.
You should always get vaccinated and always use safe methods of cooking and preparing food. It is also vital to maintain good personal hygiene as not doing so can lead to the spread of infection, regularly change clothing and regularly wash body as well as you using fresh PPE for different tasks. There are 4 main types of infection and many ways in which they can enter the body. The four main types of infection: Bacteria - are small single-celled life forms that reproduce quickly and are capable of causing disease. Bacterial infections can usually be treated with anti-biotics however some types of bacteria can form a protective spore which can make them more resistant to heat and chemicals.
At night, mosquitoes constantly bit the soldiers and they had to take pills everyday to prevent mosquito transmitted diseases. So, in order to combat such things, each soldier had to put a mosquito net over his bed. Also, each camp ran rampant with rats and other vermin. At one point, a mate of Richard’s had to smash a rat with a book of his, and Perry said it was “the biggest rat he’s ever seen”. On top of all that, there were bigger pest problems.
Infections can also be transferred through visitors coming in to see their relatives. MRSA, Influenza, E coli are common causes of infections and can't all be treated by antibiotics. Some infections are resilient to them and they don't work. It is also known that Scabies is a well known infection in nursing homes and can be treated but can spread very quickly so needs to be picked up quickly, and should be isolated for 24hrs after treatment. Treatment should be repeated in about 4 weeks time and all clothes, towels etc.
Throughout the book, the spread of this thread virus (another name for filovirus) is traced back to the exploration by a French expatriate named “Charles Monet”. Preston reflects on Monet’s exposure to Ebola back to the Kitum Cave in Kenya which ultimately spreads globally through a not heavily regulated monkey trading ring to its appearance in Reston, Virginia, where it became a worldwide epidemic . Ebola enters the body through an exchange of bodily fluids similar to AIDs but the aftermath is nothing in comparison. Preston identifies four filoviruses strains—Marburg, Ebolua Sudan, Ebola Zaire and Ebola Reston—all of which have different mortality rates but the same effects on the body . Marburg is the least fatal with a fatality rate of twenty-five percent, Ebola Zaire is the most fatal with a ninety-percent kill rate.
(www.legislations.gov.uk, Accessed 04/10/13). Training cleaners on how to clean up after the previous patient properly and how the cups and plates should be put away, stops harm because if the cleaners had more training and cleaned up properly, there would be less infection being spread as there would be less bacteria around the ward. It also maintains the respect and dignity that should be provided for the patients that are cared for. If the recommendation was not reached, patients would be harmed by catching viruses and infection. In this case, if a patient in the ward was to catch one off these infections from dirty cups, it would be harder for them to recover due to them being elderly and having a lower immune system than someone that was young and healthy, so in some cases little infections like this from been given a dirty cup to drink from can sometimes lead to death.
2. Discuss the safe management of sharps and why is it an important part of our nursing practice. Sharps can potentially be contaminated with many different types of microorganisms and blood borne viruses’ e.g. Human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV), and Hepatitis B and C. Therefore all sharps unless their origin is known, should be treated as contaminated. Extreme care must be taken in the management and disposal of sharps waste.
Contagious diseases like smallpox, measles, chickenpox, rubella, polio, rabies, mumps, etc. were brought into control due to vaccines made by carrying out experiments on animals. About 99% of the human genes are similar to that of the chimpanzees as well as a few other monkeys. Thus, experimenting with these animals gives scientists an idea about their possible reaction in the human body. As it is immoral to experiment on humans, chimpanzees and other monkeys remain the only option.