Long Way To Go Against Ebola - Any attempt to shape the world and modify human personality in order to create a self chosen pattern of life involves many unknown consequences. Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. (Any attempt to change the world involves a lot of unintended consequences. The fate of human beings into the pot because there are many factors that are unpredictable. Nature will strike back in a way that can never be foreseen.)
"Mirage of Health", Rene Dubos, 1959
Long before a new infection diseases spread, French-born microbiologist Rene Dubos, it turns out, is meramalkannya. In the Mirage of Health, he wrote that the encyclopedia of the struggle against the disease in total will never happen because it was not in line with the ongoing life process.
"All the advances of science and technology will not liberate humankind. With a highly dynamic adaptation process, any organism will survive in an environment that is constantly changing, "she said.
Emerging viruses
In 1976, ten years after the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a program eradikasi smallpox, the world is full of hope will soon be freed from smallpox. Thanks to Edward Jenner who invented the technique of vaccination so that diseases that are already known in Egypt more than 3,000 years ago and threatens 60 percent the world's population could be defeated.
However, the euphoria was all but extinct by the arrival of a new outbreak news from Africa. When WHO announced the world encyclopedia of smallpox in 1980, the world was changing dibayang-bayangi HIV/AIDS and ebola, also with a very high level of kefatalan.
During the last three months in 1976 ebola, dengue fever has killed residents in Yambuku in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), headquartered in Atlanta, United States, from 318 cases recorded 280 victims died. With the average mortality rate of 90 percent, the specter of ebola become daunting indeed.
As for the first official victim of AIDS recorded is Margrethe p. Rask from Denmark, a surgeon who served in Zaire. He died in a hospital in Copenhagen, 12 December 1977, three and a half years before AIDS was identified at the CDC, June 1981.
Counteroffensive
Nature probably being attacked back. According to Laurie Garrett in his book, The Coming Plague (1994), during the last 50 years found dozens of new virus infectious diseases. In addition to progress, the emergence of viral Virology virus-new many triggered by damage to ecosystems due to logging, farming and livestock-monokul tour, overcrowding, as well as exceptional human mobility due to advances in transportation.
Habitat in the Interior are untouched now becomes the new sights. Then, someone could have contracted the deadly virus, a jet plane ride home, and when it came to his home in other continents and the disease symptoms appear new. The plane, also carried cargo, can bring insects that contain deadly organisms into new ecosystems.
In the case of marburg, for example, although the origin of the virus from Africa, but got the name because it spread in Germany of an old city in Central Germany. This Virus epidemic in 1967 at the factory that produces vaccine Behring Works by using the kidney cells of the African Green monkey.
Monkeys are imported regularly from Uganda are infected so that there appears to be infecting others. Malignant viruses that make a monkey of marburg is exposed and run out of blood lantak destroyed. The Virus was then moved to other species and suddenly appeared among the officers and inhabitants of the city enclosure.
Similar symptoms
As described in the book the Hot Zone (1996) by Richard Preston, marburg virus victims began to suffer headaches on the seventh day after exposure, high fever, bleeding, then ended up with great shock and death. This vicious Virus once when attacking organs, intestines, skin and connective tissue.
Similar symptoms occur in victims of the ebola virus, marburg virus sekerabat with in the family Filoviridae. Derived from the phylum — Latin for yarn — under a microscope this virus is indeed similar strands of yarn. Then, Peter Piot (now former Executive Director of the UN Agency for AIDS/UNAIDS) as one of the inventors of ebola as see "????" in mikroskopnya when identifying the virus.
Named as the name of a small river in the Congo — the place of origin of the deadly ebola virus found — continue to spread in the region of Central Africa from 1976 to the present. The last outbreak in Uganda today, 16 people died and 18 others were still isolated.
Ebola was detected in a quarantine centre in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Texas (USA) in 1989-1990. Transmitted by monkeys that were imported from the Philippines, four officers eventually infected enclosure. They were lucky because only hit by the ebola Reston subtype-the least violent in humans. Other subtypes,
