Knowing where the Ebola hot spots are in a country is crucial to getting an outbreak quickly under control.Many have criticized the initial slow response to the West Africa outbreak, saying it’s a big reason the virus quickly spread.Now, a German research center is developing a project to monitor Ebola and other outbreaks in real time.“At the moment we don’t have treatments available and we don’t have vaccines available," he said."And even if we did we would still need rapid follow-up of every new case that is occurring in order to guide this new patient to proper isolation and treatment.”“Capture every contact person and to follow-up this contact person for 21 days and to see that they don’t develop fever.So for that reason we are trying to build a management tool that will facilitate this task,” he said.He said, “This is an information technology tool that we are developing together with colleagues from Nigeria that will take care of all those management aspects.”
