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Global Health and Diversity
Joshua Davis
Professor Carolina Baldwin
September 18, 2022
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Analysis Table
Other Health Challenge #1: Sexual Contact
Other Health Challenge Other Health Challenge #2: Transmission from #3: Lack of healthcare Clothing Incidence Not knowing of being a Not knowing of being a Not having access to carrier and passed on by carrier and passed on by healthcare. bodily fluids bodily fluids Prevalence Ebola virus is a serious Ebola virus is a serious Ebola virus is a serious disease and other disease and other disease and other condition don't dictate condition don't dictate condition don't dictate the spread. Knowing if the spread. Knowing if the spread. Knowing if the person if a carrier is the person if a carrier is the person if a carrier is the most important factor the most important factor the most important factor Presentation With people possible not Bodily fluids can get People who work near knowing that they are into clothes and bedding potential infectious carrying EV they can which can spread to people and lack of spread EV others coming into facilities contact Social Economic factors, Economic factors, Economic factors, Determinants working factors, and working factors, and working factors, and access to healthcare. access to healthcare. access to healthcare. Inequities Lower income/rural Lower income/rural Lower income/rural areas not having proper areas not having proper areas not having proper access to care. access to care. access to care. Programs, Healthcare agencies have Healthcare agencies Healthcare agencies Policies, or put in place quarantine, have put in place have put in place Legislation vaccine efforts, and quarantine, vaccine quarantine, vaccine educational programs. efforts, and educational efforts, and educational programs. programs. Other NA NA NA
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Other Health Challenge
The Ebola Virus is such a deadly virus that any other factors don't really determine what
can happen while affected with the virus. The virus has a period of time where a person does not
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show any systems and during this time is when the virus can spread. As mentioned, the virus can
spread from an infected patient's blood or bodily fluids via sweat, semen, saliva, and etc. As
mentioned from How Ebola is spread, "Semen from a man who recovered from EVD (through
oral, vaginal, or anal sex). The virus can remain in certain body fluids (including semen) of a
patient who has recovered from EVD, even if they no longer have symptoms of severe illness.
There is no evidence that Ebola can be spread through sex or other contact with vaginal fluids
from a woman who has had Ebola" (How Ebola Spreads From Person to Person | Prince
George's County, MD, n.d.).
Other Health Challenge #2:
As mentioned above the virus can spread from bodily fluids and one of the symptoms is sweating
when you have this virus. According to Ebola, "The virus is spread by contact with an infected
patient's blood or bodily fluids, including sal