Solutions

20 MAY 2016 | BRAZZAVILLE - Sequencing of the virus in Cabo Verde by Institut Pasteur, Dakar confirms that the Zika virus currently circulating in Cabo Verde is the same as the one circulating in the Americas - the Asian type- and was most likely imported from Brazil. This is the first time that the Zika strain responsible for the outbreaks linked to neurological disorders and microcephaly has been detected in Africa.

The Ebola scourge hit the shores of Sierra Leone almost two years ago when a man contracted the deadly virus in Kailahun, northeast of the country, in May 2014.

From there the disease spread like wild fire in the harmattan season, killing more than 3,000 Sierra Leoneans.

It also devastated the economy, and brought the country almost to a stand still.

Even though a number of victims survived the virus, they had to cope with mental wounds caused by it, and seek ways of healing.

Introduction: The 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa raised many questions about the control of infectious disease in an increasingly connected global society. Limited availability of contact information made contact tracing diffcult or impractical in combating the outbreak. 

Methods: We consider the development of multi-scale public health strategies that act on individual and community levels. We simulate policies for community-level response aimed at early screening all members of a community, as well as travel restrictions to prevent inter-community transmission. 

Pupils and staff of the Modern High along Jomo Kenyatta Road were yesterday in a jubilant and fulfilled mood after learning of a gesture from a Sierra Leonean John Musa who made a donation of computers and other electronic materials to the school.

The donation, John Musa said, is part of several programmes to take Information Communication Technology (ICT), to schools and universities and this is a means of giving back to the people and communities that helped him get to where he is today.

The Sierra Leonean who finished his studies and later worked in an engineering company in the United States of America, said he intends to give computers to students in the school and for other pupils in other schools. He has set up the Musa Foundation with the objective so that with these tools they [pupils] will create a structure for them to follow to become the next future leaders of the world.