West Africa Disaster Preparedness Initiative (WADPI)

By Ade Campbell
Tuesday May 3, 2016

By: SEM Contributor on May 4, 2016.

The Director Gento Group, Mohamed Gento Kamara has appeal to road users for them to exercise patience with them as they want to do long lasting job.  (Photo: Jomo Kenyatta Road)

Gento Group Director was explaining why they failed to meet their deadline of completing the Jomo Kenyatta/King Harman Road junction by end of April.

Giving reasons for not meeting their deadline, Gento Group Director, Mohamed Gento Kamara told this Medium that just after they made the declaration to complete the tarring of that road by April ending, the government asked them to construct a foot bridge along New England Ville junction which he said stalled their timetable for two weeks as they need to draw the plan for that foot bridge and also start the construction.

published by Liz Szabo

6:47 p.m. EDT May 2, 2016

ATLANTA — The need for drugs to prevent and treat Zika infections grows with every new patient diagnosed. The virus causes devastating birth defects and is strongly linked to a type of paralysis called Guillain-Barre syndrome.

There are currently no approved drugs against Zika; developing a new medication for any disease can take 10 to 20 years.

"The sense of urgency is enormous," said Mauro Martins Teixeira, who heads the immunopharmacology laboratory at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil. "In an emergency, everyone wants quick answers."