Johns Hopkins Hospital and Ebola Virus disaster management case study

The case study must include detailed analysis of the hospital/healthcare setting, the disaster/crisis, assessment of site/location capabilities, evaluation of response challenges and outcomes, and your proposed solutions to the identified challenges. Do NOT just regurgitate the event details, provide solutions and be persuasive. The final paper should demonstrate knowledge of the event and the critical thinking skills needed to respond and recover.

include APA in text citations.

Please fallow the requirement and focus on the hospital response and recovery management plan for Ebola Virus disease.

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Ebola Virus is one of the deadliest diseases to human beings and other animals. The disease can be spread from animal to human and from one person to another through contact.  According to Bishop (2015), the virus is spread especially when a person comes in to contact with infected people body fluids such as sweat,  saliva, mucus, urine,  blood,  or come into contact with the contaminated items such as clothes, bed sheets,  wheelchairs in hospitals,  needle, and etcetera.  World health organization outlines that the average fatality rate of the Ebola Virus disease is nearly 50 percent.  However, in some cases, the fatality rate has varied from 25 to 90 percent. The Ebola Virus disease was first reported in central Africa near the tropical rain forest. Later the EVD spread in the West Africa country such as Nigeria, Benin, and DRC. The disease has killed thousands…

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