Salmonella and ebola

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Salmonella

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Ebola

Salmonella refers to a genus of rod shaped bacterium. Some of these bacteria are responsible for food poisoning and typhoid fever. It can be spread through infected food, feces, polluted wรกter.

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Theobald Smith was the actual discoverer of the type bacterium (Salmone ll enterica var. choleraesui s) in 1885.

They are contagious diseases.

That are symptoms?

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They both once became and epidemy to people.

What are treatments?

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Symptoms of salmonela are: Diarrhea, Fever, Stomach cramps, Vomiting. No treatment is necessary for salmonella other than staying hydrated

What is it?

How is it spread?

When was discovered?

Both can be spread from person through person.

the disease Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), a viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF). The spread of Ebola occurs through direct contact with an infected person or his or her body fluids (such as blood or secretions). The virus takes its name from the Ebola River in the northern Congo basin of central Africa, where it first emerged in 1976. Ebola is closely related to the Marburg virus, which was discovered in 1967, Symptoms of ebola are: Fever, Sore throat, weakness, severe headache. Ebola research scientists do not understand why some people are able to recover from the hemorrhagic fever and others are not. Around 2000 people have died because of this disease.

Links:

http://coldflu.about.c om/od/othercommon illnesses/a/salmonella .htm http://www.medicaln ewstoday.com/article s/160942.php http://en.wikipedia.or g/wiki/Salmonella

http://en.wikipedia.or g/wiki/Ebola_virus_dis ease http://ebola.emedtv.c om/ebola/ebolasymptoms.html http://www.phacaspc.gc.ca/labbio/res/psdsftss/ebola-eng.php

Articles:

Salmonella infected peanut butter removed from stores.

Development of a preventive vaccine for Ebola virus infection in


primates. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported last Tuesday that 30 people, in 19 American states have become infected with a rare salmonella strain known as Bredeney, likely from tainted, commercially available peanut butter. Learn more: Salmonella infected peanut butter removed from stores.docx

Outbreaks of haemorrhagic fever caused by the Ebola virus are associated with high mortality rates that are a distinguishing feature of this human pathogen. Learn more: C:\Users\3a.bhinojosa\D ocuments\Development of a preventive vaccine for Ebola virus infection in primates.docx

Conclusion: Both of these diseases are extremely bad and can cause a lot of deaths because of their effects. One is a bacteria and other a virus, but they can spread easily form person to person and thing to person. Both of them don’t have treatments so people need to take caution


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