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C228 Task 2
Western Governors University
International Outbreak
, TASK 2-EBOLA VIRUS 2
A communicable disease is any illness caused by an infectious agent or its toxins
that occurs through the direct or indirect transmission of the infectious agent or its products.
Some examples of communicable diseases are measles, tuberculosis, hepatitis, HIV, COVID-19,
and influenza. Ebola can be contracted by human to human as well as human to primate by way
of eating infected meat already infected with the Ebola virus. The Ebola virus wasdiscovered
near the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of Congo.Places that Ebola has spread are
Sierra Leone, Liberia, Gabon, Russia, and in the United States in 2014.
Description of a chosen international outbreak
In 2014 the Ebola virus otherwise known as Ebola hemorrhagic fever or EHF first was
discovered in 1976 in Zaire, Africa. The 2014 outbreak started in Guinea due to the
unconventional burial procedures. In September 2014 in Dallas, Texas the CDC monitored 179
suspected Ebola cases, the initial case was traced to Vickery Meadows due to the increased
amount of foreign population within 25,000 square miles of town (Santibañez, Davis, & Avchen,
2019). There was a Liberian male that presented with a sinus infection 14 days prior to his
death. The man died of hemorrhagic fever and as the investigation progressed; they later found
out he had explosive diarrhea and projectile vomiting within the first three days. The nosocomial
VHF outbreaks such as the 2014 U.S. Ebola virus disease incident in Dallas, Texas and the
single nurse assistant in Madrid, Spain, and the significance of other documented outbreaks of
nosocomial VHF due to instances of mis-diagnosis, patient morbidity, and the secondary
infection of health care workers wearing various levels of PPE (Eddy, & Sase, 2015).
Epidemiological Determinants and Risk Factors
The virus belongs to the Ebola virus genus, Filoviridae family, and Mononegavirales
order. The genus Ebolavirus includes the following species: Zaire ebolavirus, Reston
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