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Causes
Effects
Setting
Treatment
People
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When fruit bats are butchered for meat, or when people eat food contaminated with bat droppings.
How do fruit bats infect people?
100
280 people
During 1976 how many people were killed in Central Africa?
100
West Africa
Where is the most common place Ebola comes from?
100
ZMapp
What is the name of the vaccine for Ebola?
100
Dr. Kent Brantly
Who is the first successfully treated patient in the U.S.?
200
Direct contact with body fluids from an infected person including: vomit, diarrhea, urine or blood.
How can humans become infected with Ebola?
200
Vomiting and diarrhea
What are two effects Ebola has?
200
Dallas Texas
Where was the first patient outside of West Africa treated, and later died?
200
Goggles, masks, rubber gloves, and full-body suits.
What are the protective gear doctors need to wear?
200
Because these plants can be easily infected with viruses
Why did researchers choose tobacco plants to create a vaccine?
300
Protective clothing and quarantine of the patient.
How do Doctors protect themselves from being infected?
300
Flu-like symptoms.
How do people feel when first contracting Ebola?
300
Central Africa
Where did the first person to contract Ebola come from?
300
Via their veins
How does ZMapp get into the patients?
300
21 days
What is the length of time an infected person has before they show any symptoms from Ebola?
400
Fever and body aches
What are the first signs you may have Ebola?
400
21 days
How long can an infected person go without symptoms?
400
In an Airplane Biocontainment Unit.
How are infected patients transported? (Be specific)
400
No
Has ZMapp been tested on humans?
400
Body fluids from an infected person.
How do people get infected from Ebola?
500
High fever, excruciating head and muscle aches, vomiting and diarrhea that continues, and blood vessels leaking in the later stages.
What are the symptoms of Ebola? (Be specific)
500
Tobacco
What plant is used to create a vaccine?
500
Guinea
What country did the 2013 outbreak start?
500
By touching body fluids from an infected person.
How is Ebola spread?
500
Antibodies
What is the part of the Z-Mapp vaccine that surrounds the Ebola virus?