{"id":293,"date":"2017-12-03T20:35:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T20:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=293"},"modified":"2025-05-14T15:33:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T15:33:59","slug":"jordan-weinkauf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Weinkauf"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ebola, A Threat Assessment <\/span><\/p>\n

Hemorrhagic fevers like Ebola have been in the news over the last several years as severe outbreaks have sprung up in West Africa. \u00a0It has captured our imagination due to its extremely virulent nature and by the spectacularly gruesome way in which kills those it infects. \u00a0In addition its origin is relatively unknown which furthers the myth of this virus. \u00a0Understandably the American public became incredibly worried, with large portions of the population concerned that the pandemic would spread to our shores. \u00a0But was all this hype really worth it? \u00a0Sure, Ebola is very deadly. \u00a0In fact in some cases it kills up to 90% of those infected. \u00a0What\u2019s even more incredible is that it is not the virus that ultimately kills you, but rather your own immune system. \u00a0Through viral trickery, the Ebola virus silences and short circuits your immune cells causing massive internal bleeding and organ failure. \u00a0Also it can last relatively long periods on common hospital surfaces and still remain viable. \u00a0However while it is quite destructive on the individual level it seems to be relatively impotent on a global level. \u00a0Outbreaks have been severe but still remain locked to a relatively small area. \u00a0This becomes very evident if we look at the R0 number and other infection factors of the virus and we can see that it has less teeth than originally thought. \u00a0Therefore, I believe Ebola is not the harbinger of some future apocalypse, but it is an incredibly complex and fascinating virus that deserves future study.<\/span><\/p>\n

BIOL 499, Capstone<\/span><\/p>\n

Paul Allee<\/span><\/p>\n

P114<\/span><\/p>\n

11 – 11:30 AM<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ebola, A Threat Assessment Hemorrhagic fevers like Ebola have been in the news over the last several years as severe outbreaks have sprung up in West Africa. \u00a0It has captured our imagination due to its extremely virulent nature and by the spectacularly gruesome way in which kills those it infects. \u00a0In addition its origin is … Continue reading “Jordan Weinkauf”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[730,122,66,661,767],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2017","tag-allee-p","tag-biol","tag-biol-499","tag-capstone","tag-weinkauf-j"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}