Wake Up And Learn More About Sleeping Sickness

There’s a disease in Africa called sleeping sickness has a variety of symptoms but if not treated leaves you  in a coma. Though this disease is very deadly it also has many treatment options available. Sleeping sickness does take six months to kill, but it also claims lives because of how it makes people fall asleep while driving and it does do damage to your nervous system. Sleeping sickness is carried by flies which is bad because there are lots of flies. My friend Dawson also did a post on this awhile ago so you could check his post out too.

Drone Ranger

Ol Pejeta Conservancy is a large game reserve near Mount Kenya in Kenya. It has a lot of various wildlife, including black rhinos (which are endangered), white rhinos, elephants, leopards, lions and chimpanzees. These animals need protection from poachers and crime syndicates because many of them are prized for their qualities like ivory. However, Ol Pejeta Conservancy has only 190 rangers, and only 40 of those are armed. The criminals are heavily armed and like to focus their criminal activities on privately-owned game reserves. As you might think, security is expensive for these parks and not all of them can afford it. In response to their need for better protection, the Ol Pejeta Conservancy is planning to try something new to provide security to their wildlife. This innovation is unmanned aerial drones. The drones will help monitor and the wildlife at the park. They will also be monitoring any poachers that might be visiting the park. Do you think the unmanned drones will help provide additional protection?

Sleeping Sickness

          Sleeping Sickness is a vector borne parasitic disease. Caused by two germs, protazoa, and trypanosomoa brucei gambiense. It is always spread by animal or bug bites but it is unoften to happen through blood transfusion or across the placenta. The tsetse fly, the cause of sleeping sickness, is found in Africa and only in Africa. The fly comprises three groups of different species; Glossin Fusca or forest tsetse, G. palpalis or riverine tsetse, and G. morsitans or savannah tsetse. When exposed to sleeping sickness,  the disease will be in rural areas and will depend on fishing , agriculture, animal husbandry, and or hunting. Would you experiment with these flies?

Drones in Africa

Animal poaching is a big problem in Africa and it has been a long hard road to figure out what to do. Many people think they have found the solution, unmanned drones. The drones are capable of protecting many animals. However, the animal the focus in is the rhino.The rhino is a commonly poached animal because of its tusks. Although, it might seem like an animal that can protect itself it really does not stand a chance against a gun. That's where the drones come in. They keep a camera on them so if one of them gets poached they know where and when and can find the people. However, this doesn't solve all the problems of poaching, but it's a good start! What do you think about drones stopping poachers?

MALAWI

WOW, that must be really hard for kids to sit on dirt or cement floors for 7 hours a day 5 days a week. I would hate going to school I probably not even go to school because of how hard it would be to concentrate or learn anything at that. The kids were so exited when they saw the desks it was like Christmas to those kid there faces lit up with joy that they got on the truck and unloaded the desks there selves.

Sleeping Sickness

Around 20% of Africa has the tsetse fly. The tsetse fly is the main culprit for the sleeping sickness. This disease is very deadly if u don't discover it soon enough.  Additionally, it is possible that you could die in the next 6 months. If this fly that is infected bites cattle, then the cattle will die.  Most of the time the tsetse fly is not infected with the disease.  The deathly parasites are carried by the tsetse fly.  Furthermore, this disease is so populated that it is found in 36 countries of the saharan Africa.  This disease is very deadly and dangerous how would you handle it?

six months spent in sudan

Doctors without borders offer medical care to people in war torn regions of the world.  Dr. James spent six months in sudan and  helped many people.  Sudan had Africa's largest and longest war that lasted 20 years and  drove many people out of their homes. Dr. James was worried about the six months to come because he didn't know what medicine he had access too,  what was wrong with his patents and in addition he didn't know where to find his patients. Would you spend six months in sudan?