Ebola Research Paper

To date, there is no approved vaccine or medication for the Ebola Virus. Symptoms and signs of Ebola are treated as they appear. Some of the basic interventions to try and increase a patient’s chances of survival: Providing intravenous fluids and balancing the body salt, Maintain a patient’s oxygen and blood pressure, replacing bodily fluids and treating anything other infection they occur. The Ebola virus first affects the cell in the human body and then it spreads to the blood and then the tissue and then to you organs and eventually your body systems. Experimental vaccines and medicines are currently under development but it hasn’t been full tested for efficiency and safety. There are three potential immunisations that might be used in the

The third one is by Johnson and Johnson and it is now ready for testing. The plan is that these three different immunisations will be tested across the three most affected nations in western Africa. But first they need to test it on animals with the disease. There are also drug researches that are still ongoing. There are two potential drugs that have undergone testing at the Medicines Sans Frontireres Facility. One of the drugs is the Favipiravir, an antiviral drug approved in Japan. Scientists said that the drug won’t help patients who are mostly likely to die from Ebola but this drug can help people who are in the early stages of the illness. He quoted “this drugs needs more result outside the trails environment”. The other dug is the Brindicidofovir: an antiviral drug that has been tested in Liberia. Like any other Ebola drug, there is no clinical evidence that proves the Brindicidovir drug can cure Ebola. Some of ways of preventing this disease is to avoid bush meat, don’t handle remains of animals and humans, always wash your hands and importantly avoid areas of known areas of

Mostly western African countries that that has been affected by it, the Ebola virus has already killed 8900 people. Here in Sierra Leon, the international response has been slow and patchy leaving the locals behind and so as the local government and non-government organizations to do the work. Sierra Leon has received some sort of response from international organisation. They was a deployment of medical and disaster personals, beds, vaccines and other medical resources to try and combat the disease but I guess that wasn’t enough. This country is desperately in need of urgent assistance. Doctors here are outnumbered by patients, there is no proper facilities to help the sick patients. The local government is trying their best to try and combat these disease but it is tough for them since it is a country who were hit with a civil war couple of years ago. You see, the doctors and nurses here are constantly dying as well and risking their lives to try and save other peoples’ lives. This country needs more international aid to stop this disease to spread. International governments focus mainly on financing medical facilities, leaving the staffs behind. The local medical staff here are lacking the required expertise. I guess the only success of the international response is probably the fact there is something done here in Sierra Leon instead of nothing. There are few medical facilities set up by the