Download EBOLA VIDEO

Name: __________________________
EBOLA VIDEO
Ebola: The plague fighters. (NOVA) 1996
While you watch the video, please answer the following questions:
1. Is Ebola a virus or a bacterium? ________________________
2. In what country is Kikwit located? _______________________
3. Is there a cure or vaccine for Ebola? _____________________
4. How is the Ebola epidemic stopped? _______________________________
5. Was the outbreak of Ebola in 1995 the first known outbreak? __________________
6. How is Ebola transmitted? _____________________________________________
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7. What makes Ebola more dangerous than HIV (AIDS)? _______________________
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8. Do you think it is right to use the military to quarantine an area? What if you weren’t
infected? ___________________________________________________________
9. Should you be able to leave an area that was infected? On what, if any, conditions?
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10. What was the source of the Ebola-like virus that occurred in the German
pharmaceutical company? _____________________________________________
11. In 1989, in the Washington suburb primate unit (Reston!), how was the Ebola virus
spread? ___________________________________________________________
12. Did the Ebola virus mentioned in question 11 infect humans? __________________
13. What funeral practices helped spread the Ebola virus? _______________________
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14. What is one of the two chemicals spread to destroy Ebola? __________________
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15. What is thought to be the natural home of the Ebola virus? ____________________
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16. Do scientists/doctors know the natural host of Ebola? _______________________
17. Was the first victim of the Ebola in the Kikwit outbreak determined? ____________
18. How many survived out of the 5 infected people? ___________________________
19. What is found in the blood of Ebola survivors that allows them to live?
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20. In the Kikwit outbreak of Ebola: _____________ were infected, ___________ died
from the infection.
21. What factors contribute to the Africa being a “good” host to Ebola and other
infectious diseases? __________________________________________________
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