Like Seriously??? Why Was Ebola ‘Miracle’ Drug Only Administered to 2 White Americans?

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One of the things that made Ebola so terrifying was that it appeared there was no cure for the devastating disease. But a secret serum developed by a San Diego-based company may be an Ebola miracle cure, as it apparently saved the lives of the two white Americans who contracted the disease in Liberia.

Amid the stunning media reports about the possible Ebola miracle drug, some observers are wondering why the drug was tried only when two white Americans contracted the disease, considering that Ebola has been wreaking havoc in West Africa for months. Ebola has been diagnosed in 1,600 people and killed more than 700 in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. It has thus far killed about 60 percent of those infected.
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Ebola: Primary & Secondary schools in Lagos set to resume on the 8th of Oct.

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The NUT and other bodies and individuals have been from the September 22nd resumption date of primary and secondary schools in Lagos have succeeded because the Lagos state government have approved a brand new resumption date. Schools will now resume October 8th.  Governor Fashola approved the newest resumption date at a stakeholders'forum which held today Sunday September 21st in Lagos. He explained they made a decision to postpone the date to permit for the distribution of Ebola preventive materials in schools across their state

Video: WAPTV releases Ebola Awareness Campaign

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According to Wole Adenuga, Managing Director of wapTV, “Wale Adenuga Productions Ltd has a long history of effectively passing across Strong Moral Values and Messages through the medium of Entertainment. This Ebola Enlightenment Campaign is just our own way of complementing the efforts by the Government, and other bodies, in enlightening millions of families across Nigeria about Ebola.”

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Ebola: OAU Student Quarantined, Confesses Contact with Enemuo -

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Fear gripped students, parents and staff of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife on Tuesday over a report that a patient on admission at the OAU Health Centre was a suspected Ebola Virus Disease victim.

Though the management of the school initially denied the development, the Oyo State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Temitope Ilori, said the sick student had confessed having contact with the late Port Harcourt doctor, Iyke Enemuo, who died of the EVD after he secretly treated an infected ECOWAS diplomat, Olu-Ibukun Koye, in a hotel in the Rivers State capital. The commissioner said the female student had been put in the isolation ward.
Ilori said:
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Family denies late Dr Adadevoh's younger sister tested positive for Ebola

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The Adadevoh family has denied reports that younger sister lately Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh (pictured above) who died of the Ebola virus, has tested positive to Ebola and has been hospitalized.

Despite sources insisting that Amy Ngozi Adadevoh tested positive and has been moved to the isolation treatment centre in Lagos, the family says this is really not true.

This information is 100% incorrect. As I am sure you are aware, positive Ebola cases are announced by the Minister of Health. You can check with the official list from the Health Ministry. Amy got a clean bill of health yesterday after her EVD test result came back negative. She left the hospital much earlier in the day and is now home thanking God. The Adadevoh family is well known and very popular and this misinformation is causing a lot of extra grief." - family source

1st WHO-deployed Health Worker Tests Positive for Ebola -

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A microscopic view shows the Ebola virus.

A WHO-deployed medical care worker has tested positive for Ebola; first time it's ever happened. The worker, a man from Senegal, is in Sierra Leone and receiving care, the WHO said. No more details were given immediately. When asked how a worker contracted the virus, a WHO spokesperson said officials don't know all of the details.

Here is the statement WHO just released:
WHO is working to ensure an international health worker who is deployed for the Organization in Sierra Leone and has contracted Ebola receives the best care possible including the option of medical evacuation to another care facility if necessary.
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EBOLA!! We Are Africans Not Americans - Tonto Dikeh

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Few hours after movie director Charles Novia condemned the Nigerian celebrities for participating in the ALS ice water challenge that is currently trending. Nollywood actress Tonto Dikeh has therefore started what she calls the “Wash Your Hands Challenge”

The Nollywood actress, has also condemned the act, saying we are Africans not Americans, She started this to further raise awareness of the Ebola virus.
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S’Leonean law makes hiding Ebola patients a crime

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Sierra Leone’s parliament has passed a new law making it a criminal offence to shelter Ebola patients. Those caught face up to two years in prison, the justice minister said. The measure still needs to be approved by the president. Earlier, Ivory Coast closed its land borders to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus on to its territory. The World Health Organisation says the measures – taken by other countries as well – are counterproductive. So far 1,427 people have died – more than in any other Ebola outbreak. The number of cases now stands at 2,615. The speed and extent of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa are “unprecedented”, according to the WHO.

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Ebola: Lagos Hospital which Treated Patrick Sawyer to get ₦4m

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Photo of First Consultant Hospital, Obalende, Lagos

First Consultant Hospital in Obalende, Lagos State, where Nigeria’s first Ebola case was treated will receive N4 million from ANAP foundation. 

Nigeria's Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu’s spokesperson, Dan Nwomeh, in a statement said, the founder of the foundation, Atedo Peterside, informed the ministry that all private hospitals affected by the outbreak would receive N100, 000 per bed space. The statement said Mr. Peterside disclosed that First Consultant Hospital would be the first beneficiary of the foundation’s donation. The hospital will receive N4 million since it has 40 bed spaces.
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Touching Photos from Liberia as country battles spreading Ebola epidermic

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Getty Images photographer John Moore traveled to Monrovia, Liberia, risking their own life to chronicle harrowing scenes in the country which will be in the grip of the deadly Ebola disease. The death toll from Ebola has reached 1,069 and Liberia is the next most affected country after Guinea where this recent outbreak started from. 

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Nigerian player tested for Ebola in Kuwait

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 Nigeria midfielder Shehu Abdullahi was tested for Ebola virus disease in Kuwait after his club returned from a training stint in Dubai. A close associate of Shehu told AfricanFootball.com that the former Kano Pillars star was specially singled out for an Ebola test at the airport on the arrival of his Kuwaiti club from Dubai. 

“He was tested because he carries a Nigerian passport. But there was no cause for alarm as he tested negative,” the official said. The former Nigeria U-20 star Shehu only recently moved to Kuwait. Nigeria has been hit by the Ebola virus which has ravaged other West African countries like Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

An encounter with Ebola in Obalende

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“Oga! Oga! go back, I say go back, no go dat side o. One man don catch the Ebola disease and e wan die; you better run for your life!”

I had arrived Obalende, a popular bus station in central Lagos having alighted from an in-bound BRT bus from the peninsular Ajah area of the city a moment earlier and walked straight into the Ebola virus disease scare that had thrown the bus station into an uproar. Not that Obalende, the once notorious city centre synonymous with Nigeria’s socio-political history had ever possessed the serene ambience of its neighbouring colonial GRA of Ikoyi but even on its saner days, the oldest bus station in Lagos was always in a state of bedlam. But on the day I passed through its maze of human and vehicular commotion, Obalende seemed to have played host to a thousand demons.
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"My friend may have Ebola, I gave him $10k & he's disappeared' - Australian man Claims

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An Australian named Andrew Sayer claimed on twitter he gave a Nigerian person named Oghenekohwo $10k and hasn't heard from him since he gave him the money. Now he says he fears  that the Nigerian could have contracted the deadly Ebola virus, hence his silence. No be only Ebola...na Ebo money. Needless to say Nigerians were quick to let him know he'd been conned. 

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Ebola Scare: Food for thought on Religion vs Ebola !!

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AFRICANS are at it again this sunday.
Around 6:30 or so this morning, I heard an alfa/iman saying Ebola outbreak is a sign that we don't obey God's law and so on......
He advised that people shouldn't bath with salt and hot water (cool, though he didn't prescribe any cure or preventive method) rather, he said "we are God's people, God's people don't sick". They all recited some wording in Arabic, later, they closed.
Now its the church's time.

Pregnant Woman Tests Positive For Ebola In Lagos When She went For Check Up

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A pregnant woman who went for her usual check up at the First Consultant Hospital Obalande – same hospital that Patrick Sawyer was admitted - tested positive of the virus on Friday. She got infected after being treated by the same nurse, Obi Justina Ejelonu, who attended to the Liberian carrier, Patrick Sawyer.

Lady who started the Salt & Water Ebola Cure rumour comes out, tenders apology

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Okay, So I just found this on nairaland. .I knew this was a rumour and definitely a prank. salt and water for ebola bawo? Ebola is a VIRUS and not a WORM!

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Ebola Scare: Annie Idibia Flees Event over Fear of Ebola (Photo) -

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The fear of Ebola is the beginning of Wisdom!! I can't blame her though.. Please watch your back oh !!!
I love you all !

“God is Bigger than Ebola”-Davido replies fans over visit to Abidjan(Photo) -

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Davido found its way to Abidjan for a show as usual, the turnout was massive, since it appeared as if he was in the center of screaming fans. Concerned fans told him it had been a harmful action to take as a result of Ebola. Then shared the picture above with caption “Protected 0 ebola” then proceeded to tweet “God is bigger than Ebola.Live your life life! One Love”

Pic: See Where The 1st Ebola Surfaced In Lagos

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 The 1st Consultants Medical Centre building, Obalende Ikoyi, where the first Ebola case emerged in Lagos Nigeria through the late Patrick Sawyer.
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Juliet Ibrahim blasts OAPs making a joke of the Ebola crisis

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See what she wrote after the break.