Controling Viral Infections Flashcards
Foot and mouth disease
Weakens the adult animals transmitted by body secretion
Eboli
Animal disease spread by disease spred to humans by infected blood or meat
Treating viral diseases
Are not living and they have nkt developed drugs that effected viral diseases
Preventing viral diseases
Devastating as no antiviral drugs and vaccinations can reduce the speed of diseases
Vaccinations
Major role haven’t developed a fully tested vaccination against the worst viral infections
Disease control
Rapid identification of the virus
nursing in isolation
Preventing transmission from one person to another
Sterilising equipment and bedding after use
Wearing protective clothing
Development of new medicine
10 years
Costs millions
Research and testing on cells and tissue
Animal testing
Three phase of human testing
Speeding up the prosess
Some can be fast tracked like the bird four and eboli outbreak in 2014
Ethical implications
The surverity of the disease
The availability of other treatments of the disease
The affectedness of standards
The consent to given the treatment
Freedom of choice
Involved in the community
Collected of the data about the new medication
Untested drugs
Not ethical giving drugs they haven’t completed in the human testing
Have unexpected side effects
Deciding who gets the drug
Consent is an issue it depends on education and understanding on how the drug works
Trust issues with in the community or individual anr the heath service
The mortality rate
The measurement of the number of deaths in a given population or due to a specific cause
