short essay #3
May 7th, 2022
SHORT ESSAY ASSIGNMENT#3 QUESTIONS:
In 2014, eleven Ebola virus infected patients were hospitalized in the United States. Some of these Ebola infected patients were treated with blood serum obtained from patients that had survived the Ebola virus infection.
Answer the following questions:
A) Why was this serum used?
Make sure you explain your answer with enough detail.
Focus on explaining what was the rationale for using this serum as a treatment.
B) Assuming that this type of treatment worked great, could this type of treatment by itself save the patients?
Make sure you explain your answer with enough detail.