THE TERMINATOR

WE ALL AFFECTED BY EBOLA

Background of this deadly virus

The deadly virus that no one knew much about was discovered in the in the 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks, one in Nzara, Sudan and the other Yambuku, Democratic of Congo. Then was later discovered in West Africa in March 2014, and then started spreading to other parts of the continent and the other parts of the world. The most affected countries are Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia as they have very weak health systems lacking humans and infrastructural resources.

Symptoms

Then symptoms that one will experience if infected are a sudden fever fatigue, muscle pain, headache and a sore throat, followed by vomiting , diarrhea, rash, symptoms of impaired kidney and liver function and  in some cases both external and internal bleeding.

Diagnosis

·         Antibody-capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)

·         Antigen-capture detection tests

·         Serum neutralization test

·         Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay

·         Electron microscopy

·         Virus isolations by cell culture

Treatment and vaccines

Treatment and vaccines are offered to  infected  people to help fight the virus , treatments such as supportive care-rehydration with oral or intravenous fluid and treatment of specific symptoms, improves survival opportunities. Thou there is no proven treatment available for EVD. Thou a range of potential treatments including blood product, immune therapies and drug therapies are currently being evaluated. There are no licensed vaccines available yet , but two potential vaccines are under going human safety testing.

Controlling infections in health-care settings

Health-care workers need to be extra careful when dealing with infected patients. This include basic hand hygiene, respiratory hygiene.  Health care workers need to be extra careful when assisting the infected patients as the virus infects in minutes. To try control the virus if one has the relevant symptoms must rush to the nearest clinic or hospital to get the required help and treatment or may contact the  Ebola contact center for guidelines on what to do regarding the symptoms you experiencing.   

     

This  virus has shaken the world and arouse questions on how a virus you can just get infection by sitting next to a person or breathing the same breath. This virus is quite brutal it doesn’t even allow you to touch you loved been sick or dead, I feel this would delay me to accept that my loved has passed on.  How long to we have to wait to get a cure or an anti Ebola vaccine?? As we losing loosing lives due to this virus and we don’t have concrete answers or solutions on what to avoid in order avoiding getting infected by this brutal virus Ebola.

  

THE NKANDLA REPORT

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

The presidents home in Nkandla 

The president and his wives.

It’s been nearly a year since the public prosecutor Thuli Madonsela released her report about the upgrades that took place at the president’s home in Nkandla. The upgrades were estimated to R246million or could be more than the estimated amount, thou the initial cost of the upgrade had to be R27million. The report shows that the prices escalated after Zuma’s architect was appointed by the department of public works, he then recommended more luxurious and expensive things.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          When Zuma questioned about the upgrades in Nkandla years before, he told the Parliament that his family used their own funds to build the house and not the state, which was later found not to be true. You would expect him to take responsibility as he was caught and make arrangement on when to pay the money or ask to be given different methods to pay the money but not the president we have always hiding behind his minister and saying he didn’t ask for the upgrades. He then still goes saying he didn’t know about the miss use of funds that took place during the upgrades his home.

                                                                                                                                                                    I fail to understand how do you allow upgrades to take place in your home without knowing the budget that was made by the architecture, normally architecture would sit down with the owner of the house and make a budget for the upgrades and agree on a budget. But everything that’s done by our president is out of the normal, like who has a visitors center or extensive paving for their cattle kraal and chicken run. Even the former president Nelson Mandela built his kraal at his on express and give did not require a “fire pool”. Whenever his asked to repay the money, certain people become sensitive and unwanted drama is created.

Zuma's daughters on the cast of its for life.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               There are people who are trying to avoid the matter or sugar coat it, no matter how much you try to sugar coat this matter it will never make sense to certain South African living in shacks and paying high taxes. I value a person who takes responsibility and looks forward to solving the problem that they created. Take responsibility Mr. President or the EFF will not this slide that easy. The EFF has been trying to get answers from the president on how and will he repay the money, on every chance they get but haven’t achieved anything yet, I personally feel they the only ones who can get through the president. The 30 days that he was given to report back to the prosecutor has long passed. PAY BACK OUR MONEY MR. PRESIDENT WE HAVE GIVEN YOU ENOUGH TIME TO GATHER YOU THOUGHTS AND DO YOU RESEARCH AND GET BACK TO US.