Informative Speech: The Ebola Virus

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Jenna Lisa Bednarz
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Dr. Jones Barbour
September 18, 2014

Introduction:
Attention: Imagine yourself waking up one morning thinking you have the flu. You have fever, a headache, your body aches, and you are sick to your stomach. You make yourself get the courage to roll out of bed and drive yourself to the doctor to find out that your problems go far beyond how you feel at the moment. Not only are you feeling terrible, you are also bleeding internally and therefore on a dead end street for death.
Thesis: Ebola is virus that has a higher death rate than survival rate which is has many reports of cases in West Africa, but if we aren’t careful, could make its way to the U.S.
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Next, I am going to explain Ebola from the point of contraction, the actual virus, and then on to how people can protect themselves from Ebola.
A. Taking a step backwards, scientists have been trying to pin point the actual cause of the Ebola virus and where it exactly started from and it’s transmission.
i. According to Susannah Locke, science journalist, Ebola comes and goes over time, but the main transmission starts with an infected animal (bat, apes, and monkeys) and then a human handles this meat, comes in contact with the meat, then contracting Ebola. (How Do Ebola Outbreaks Happen) ii. Ebola is not transmitted by air, a person has to come in contact with it by means of bodily fluid (sweat or feces) in a living person or dead person and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has even reported that Ebola stays in a man’s semen for up to 3 months after contraction. (Ebola (Ebola Virus Disease)-Transmission) iii. The recent outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has reported 62 cases and 35 deaths as of September 9, 2014 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the reason for this large number is human to human contact. (Ebola (Ebola Virus …show more content…

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