Ebola is an infectious and generally fatal disease which is marked by fever and severe hemorrhage; it spreads through contact with infected body fluids such as blood or other secretions from an infected person (or body of 'host'), either directly or indirectly through contaminated surfaces, needles or medical equipment. A patient is not contagious until he or she starts showing signs of the disease. For the first time, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has brought our interest in the Ebola virus to the fore. The first ever fatal figures beyond 1,000 persons in the shortest time have been recorded. Like a gale, the virus has swept through the West African states undaunted. The economical effects continue to be felt across the globe as travel bans are affected concerning the West African region. Airline revenues are bound for a down turn because of the closures of business routes that could have been lucrative. The Ebola was there before it earned itself a name. In 1972, four years before it was actually given a name, Dr. Cairns from US who was a young doctor doing missionary work in the dense equatorial jungles of Congo Kinshasa, present day Democratic Republic of Zaire (Republique du Zaire), encountered the human ravaging disease when a very sick patient came into his clinic and died before doctors could offer a diagnosis. Of course, at that particular time, this was not an extraordinary occurrence, given the complexity of exotic infectious diseases indigenous to the region. Will Anthony Jr. is currently the Chairman of the Uasin Gishu County Land Control Board which caters for over one million people. Before this stint, he worked in other capacities with the National government. He has also been lecturer in three religious institutions, a service to the youth to gather knowledge from the aging population. In his life time, Will Anthony Jr. says he has met a lot of people and can unflinchingly say that he loved most of them. Why most of them? Well, it is a tall order to love everyone you meet! Will Anthony Jr. has written several e-books touching on diverse subjects that relate to society. The books extensively cover human social and economic practices and this is so because expertise in one field in Africa can become a drudgery according to his practical view. His perception is that if you were born in Africa and the continent is your aboriginal home, you are likely to have English as your second language (ESL). Sometimes it could even be a third language. For him, he had to learn his mother tongue then learn both English and Swahili simultaneously. He went to his pre-primary bare foot, later he joined the local primary school 5 Km away and had to trek barefoot again not because his parents could not buy him shoes but because cobblers were a rare find. That journey was a daily toil of 10 Km, 5 days in a week or ~270 days yearly for 7 years. With a smirk he says that when you achieve a PhD in Africa, then You have done Plenty of hard Digging (PhD) or you have a Permanent head Damage (PhD) and you might end up in a ditch because your IQ cannot contain the booze like the local fellas!"Why did the English colonize Africa?" To keep the African languages in Czech (check), and he says that one must forgive this pun. But besides the pun, English has broken both social and economic barriers of the once "dark continent" whose forefathers slaved the white farms and firms to lace the pockets of their Lords.A PhD holder in Africa will still practice other 'trades' though they maybe 'very' learned because poverty is shameless, one has to draw bounds through plenty of smart work or else, it will be a shame to steal so as to maintain class.He published a book in 1992, but the publisher coned him , he took her to court and the case aged in judicial corridors for 12 years. He then made a decision to abandon the matter and to forget about writing books. However, Self publishing made him to change that decision. More tha...
