Tag: Children Ebola Virus Disease

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Boca, not Ebola

Recently, there have been media reports: Shenzhen Airport Inspection and Quarantine Bureau has detected a Bocavirus patient among flight incoming personnel from Bangkok, Thailand. This is the first case of the virus detected at Shenzhen Airport. Boca virus, This is a name that is unfamiliar to medical professionals. As a result, many people look at the text and associate the virus with the Ebola virus that is raging in Africa and has spread to the United States and Europe. But in fact, the difference between Boca virus and Ebola virus is as big as the difference between Audi and Altman. Apart from the similar names, the two are quite different in terms of disease, mortality and transmission routes. Past lives Read More …

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The Latest Truth of Ebola

On the evening of the 17th, The Internet reported that [the first Ebola patient appeared at the Canton Fair, Has been sent to the second provincial people’s hospital isolated treatment] news. On the 20th, The author learned from Guangdong CDC: At present, there are no confirmed Ebola cases in Guangdong Province. In March 2014, Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia have been severely hit by Ebola virus. The outbreak then affected not far away Nigeria. In September, Spain and the United States have also found local cases one after another. The epidemic is the worst in history. The epidemic has hit all over the world. At present, the epidemic situation in West Africa is still spreading Read More …

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Phantom Ebola

Human beings have named themselves the king of all things. However, when human beings step into places in Africa that have never been favored by modern civilization, some mysterious species with a size of only a few tens of nanometers suddenly appear and ruthlessly ravage human beings. Our civilization and lives sometimes look like porcelain plates piled up high, and breaking is not far away. Without knowing the host, no vaccine, no curable drug, and the extremely horrible mode and speed of transmission, Ebola virus floated in Africa like a ghost, with 23 outbreaks from 1976 to 2012. In July 2014, Ebola virus broke out again in West Africa. Up to now, the number of infections and deaths has exceeded Read More …

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Why did the United States send Ebola infected people back to China?

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is out of control and the number of deaths and infections continues to rise. Due to the lack of vaccines and effective therapeutic drugs, isolation has become the most effective method to prevent the spread of the virus. As a result, most flights in West Africa have been grounded, travel bans have been issued, ports in various countries facing West Africa have been closed, and strict investigations have been carried out. Against this background of extreme panic, two days ago, the United States decided to take two Americans infected with Ebola virus in West Africa back to Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta for treatment, taking the initiative to bring the ghostly Ebola Read More …

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Boca, not Ebola

Recently, there have been media reports: Shenzhen Airport Inspection and Quarantine Bureau has detected a Bocavirus patient among flight incoming personnel from Bangkok, Thailand. This is the first case of the virus detected at Shenzhen Airport. Boca virus, This is a name that is unfamiliar to medical professionals. As a result, many people look at the text and associate the virus with the Ebola virus that is raging in Africa and has spread to the United States and Europe. But in fact, the difference between Boca virus and Ebola virus is as big as the difference between Audi and Altman. Apart from the similar names, the two are quite different in terms of disease, mortality and transmission routes. Past lives Read More …

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Review of the First Anniversary of Ebola Crisis: When Will We Not Meet?

It has been exactly a year since the first case of Ebola virus infection was confirmed in West Africa. When will the Ebola crisis end? On 28 December 2013, in a remote village called Meliandou in southern Guinea, a 2-year-old boy died of diarrhea, headache and fever. His 3-year-old sister, his mother and grandmother also died a few days later. According to WHO reports, these deaths did not attract much attention at first and people did not realize that the disease was spreading. It was not until March 2014 that Guinea’s health officials realized that the crisis had emerged. Ebola has never hit West Africa before, so the virus, the most serious global outbreak that killed more than 7,500 people Read More …