Japan offers experimental Ebola treatment drug, Favipiravir

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizUJCZrB8XYImZgXAFWhDfnMHvGqRrT3-owpYZ5Zw5b2YLlitBK9pXIJr08kr1sc1RYgErmHcsI0d8lm7uiyQ5p7boz_IXw65k9wACCMubg7f2aBZ8OMzsUL0a7FPtlgiAnDOHhec5yySf/s1600/unnamed.jpg" /></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Japanese government has offered to release an anti-influenza drug called Favipiravir, which they claim they developed for the treatment of new and re-emerging viral diseases, including Ebola. They say the drug can treat Ebola and other influenza viral diseases.</span></div> <div> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="text-decoration: none;"></a></span></span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Announcing the offer to newsmen yesterday August 25th in Tokyo, the Chief Cabinet Secretary of the Japanese government, Yoshihide Suga said the Japanese government is waiting for the World Health Organization to request for the drug and it will be dispatched immediately. He however said that pending the time WHO will approve and request for the drug, any emergency request by any individual may be responded to by Japan.</span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Spokesperson of Fujifilm, the company that developed the drug, Takao Aoki, said they have more than enough of the drug to cater for over 20,000 patients and are in talks with the US Food and Drug Administration for clinical testing of the drug.<a href="" name="more"></a></span></div> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> "Fujifilm is in talks with the US Food and Drug Administration on clinical testing of the drug in treating Ebola, The company has Favipiravir stock for more than 20,000 patients. Ebola and influenza viruses are the same type and theoretically similar effects can be expected on Ebola,” he said.</span></blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nigeria's Health ministry had last week Thursday August 21st announced that it had requested for another type of Anti-Ebola viral drugs but its not certain if it was Favipiravir.</span></div> </blockquote> </div>

Japan offers experimental Ebola treatment drug, Favipiravir

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Zmapp didn’t cure me, God did! Dr. Brantly, American Ebola survivor

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Brantly" class="attachment-thumbnail-single-image wp-post-image" height="409" src="http://ynaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Brantly.jpg" width="615" /></span></div> <div class="entry"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><br /></i>Kent Brantly, the American doctor who got infected with the deadly Ebola Virus Disease in Liberia has declared that his healing is because of God, and not experimental drug, Zmapp.<br />The doctor had been hospitalised at Emory University Hospital, United States of America, since contracting Ebola in Liberia almost a month ago.<br />Speaking earlier from his room in the isolation ward, Dr. Brantly said God saved his life. “God saved my life”. “Above all, I am forever thankful to God for sparing my life,” he said.<br />After his discharge, he echoed the God-factor via a video posted online on Friday, 22 August, where he was effusive in his praises to Him for sparing his life.<br />He said, “Today is a miraculous day. I am thrilled to be alive, to be well and to be reunited with my family. As I lay in bed in Liberia for the following nine days, getting sicker and weaker each day, I prayed that God<br /><a href="" name="more"></a>would help me be faithful, even in my illness.”<br />He also thanked the millions of people around the would who prayed for him while he was being treated.<br />“And I prayed that in my life or in my death that he would be glorified. I did not know then, but have learned since, that there were thousands, maybe even millions of people around the world praying for me throughout that week and even till today. I cannot thank you enough for your prayers and your support, but what I can tell you is that I serve a faithful God who answers prayers.”<br />According to the World Health Organisation, over 1,300 people have been killed by the virus in West Africa, and more than 2,473 people have contracted the disease.</span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div>

Zmapp didn’t cure me, God did! Dr. Brantly, American Ebola survivor

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#Ebola: No sex! Indian Prostitutes told to deny service to African clients

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Indian sex workers" class="attachment-thumbnail-single-image wp-post-image" height="314" src="http://ynaija.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Indian-sex-workers.jpg" width="611" /></span></div> <div class="entry"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><br /></i>Indian sex workers in Sonagachi have been instructed to refrain from rendering sex-services to all Africans, following the recent outbreak of the Ebola virus disease in the sub-region of West Africa.<br />At a forum of 130,000 sex workers in West Bengal, Indian NGO, ‘Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee’ warned them of the danger in having close contact with those infected with Ebola.<br />Mahasweta, a member of the DMSC said, “We have requested the sex workers not to entertain Africans as it can be a life risk for them if they get infected by the highly contagious Ebola virus causing havoc in some West African countries.”<br />Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (Unstoppable Women’s Synthesis Committee) is a collective of 65,000 sex workers in West Bengal, and it has an estimated membership of 11,000 sex workers.<br />In a similar vein, the association of Nigerian prostitutes have also advised their members to be wary of the<br /><a href="" name="more"></a>customers they take on, with the body imploring its members to take a temporary leave until the spread of the virus is stopped.</span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div>

#Ebola: No sex! Indian Prostitutes told to deny service to African clients

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This is How Ebola Spread into Sierra Leone and went viral

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">                            <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisHsJgMZCVAKGB6-m6USDVBESgDp8BaxDhNv1cebe0oU0gQPCCijCmUx7ww0YFfNI0rnUkOuEyt5guIA09ayCZUKvKz_PwVWsq4z_b9lHJv4Z4nKXZFV0jbRqUNHGvjRG65IPhyphenhyphenZnhsvQ/s1600/ebola-011.jpg" /></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Health officials in <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">Sierra Leone</span> have blamed the outbreak of the deadly <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">Ebola Virus</span> on a female herbalist who claimed to have power to heal people of the disease.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The health officials said the disease should not have spread from Guinea to Sierra Leone, but for the herbalist who lived in the eastern border village of Sokoma.</span></div> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="text-decoration: none;"></a><br /></span></span> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> “She was claiming to have powers to heal <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8">Ebola</span>. Cases from Guinea were crossing into Sierra Leone for treatment,” Mohamed Vandi, the <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4">top medical</span> official in the hard-hit district of Kenema, told <em>Agence France-Presse</em>.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“She got infected and died. During her funeral, women around the other towns got infected.”<br />The herbalist’s mourners fanned out across the rolling <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">hills</span> of the Kissi tribal chiefdoms, starting a <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7">chain reaction</span> of <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">infections</span>, deaths, funerals and more infections.<a href="" name="more"></a></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The deadly Ebola Virus has claimed the lives of more than 1,300 people in West Africa as well as a Spanish Priest who died last week in Spain.</span></div> <br /></div>

This is How Ebola Spread into Sierra Leone and went viral

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Dr. Kent Brantly: The US Doctor that contracted Ebola, to be released today

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">                             US doctor with Ebola to be released from hospital today</span></span></h3> <div class="post-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;"> <div class="post-header-line-1"> </div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1790621611916746014" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 616px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;">        <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNGrDgiGZnnOhx8rYcG_hKxBBByNZkvbmoXIc33NWFkoCYrM57lIq9Rxc6dTQB2JYkVLysimnBm481ihpZXZbi6gT3fxnCA3ATXlgznyBr1XVaXtirM3gBxZoxwoQkl4hyl3rDhc1bFnw/s1600/02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNGrDgiGZnnOhx8rYcG_hKxBBByNZkvbmoXIc33NWFkoCYrM57lIq9Rxc6dTQB2JYkVLysimnBm481ihpZXZbi6gT3fxnCA3ATXlgznyBr1XVaXtirM3gBxZoxwoQkl4hyl3rDhc1bFnw/s1600/02.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></a></span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1790621611916746014" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 616px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> Dr Kent Brantly, the American doctor who contracted the deadly Ebola virus in Liberia while working as a missionary in the country will be released from Atlanta's Emory University Hospital today August 21st after being successful treated.<br /><br />According to the spokesperson of the hospital, Vince Dollard, Dr. Kent's blood samples came back negative for the virus after undergoing proper screening for two days. Dr. Kent is expected to give a statement regarding his discharge later today at a news conference before leaving the hospital.</span><div> </div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dr. Kent and another US missionary Nancy Writebol contracted the disease while working to fight the outbreak in Liberia. After they contracted the disease they were taken to an isolation unit at Emory University Hospital, where they were treated with the experimental drug, ZMapp.</span></div> </div> </div>

Dr. Kent Brantly: The US Doctor that contracted Ebola, to be released today

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Germany Ebola scare as Nigerian woman showing symptoms of killer disease faints in jobcentre forcing 600 people into quarantine

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <b>Germany Ebola scare as Nigerian woman showing symptoms of killer disease faints in job centre forcing 600 people into quarantine </b><br /> <ul class="article-summary news mol-bullets-with-font" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Woman arrived at the jobcentre with a high fever, then collapsed </strong></li> <li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hundreds of visitors and staff in the building were held for several hours</strong></li> <li class="" style="list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The suspected Ebola victim has been taken to Berlin's Charite hospital </strong></li> </ul> <div class="author-section" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A woman was rushed to hospital and hundreds of people were quarantined today after she showed symptoms of Ebola virus infection in a jobcentre in Germany.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As many as 600 visitors and staff at the employment office building in Berlin were also stopped from leaving for several hours as emergency services sealed off part of the street.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The mass-circulation daily Bild said the woman had fainted, that she hailed from Nigeria and that she said later that she had recently been in contact with people infected with Ebola.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Quarantined: Police officers and ambulance medical staff stand outside the jobcentre in the Berlin district of Pankow after a woman showed symptoms of the infectious Ebola virus disease then collapsed there" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="0" height="424" id="i-1b9bfdaa8948d51f" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/19/1408463494573_wps_2_Police_officers_and_ambul.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+6</span></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Quarantined: Police officers and ambulance medical staff stand outside the jobcentre in the Berlin district of Pankow after a woman showed symptoms of the infectious Ebola virus disease then collapsed there</span></div> </div> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Biohazard: Police officers wearing protective masks stand outside the entrance of the jobcentre, where 600 people were kept in quaratine. Several people who had been with the woman were taken to hospital for testing" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="1" height="443" id="i-c6302f357e53f2ac" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/19/1408463538567_wps_3_Police_officers_wearing_p.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+6</span></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Biohazard: Police officers wearing protective masks stand outside the entrance of the jobcentre, where 600 people were kept in quaratine. Several people who had been with the woman were taken to hospital for testing</span></div> </div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Several people who had been with the woman inside the building in the north-eastern district of Prenzlauer Berg were later taken to hospital for testing.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Berlin fire department spokesman Rolf Erbe said that because the patient came from 'an area affected by a highly contagious disease, we took these precautions.'</span></div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="relatedItemsTopBorder" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> </div> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /><br />Read more: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2729046/Germany-Ebola-scare-Nigerian-woman-showing-symptoms-killer-disease-faints-jobcentre-forcing-600-people-quarantine.html#ixzz3Av7SHUxv" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2729046/Germany-Ebola-scare-Nigerian-woman-showing-symptoms-killer-disease-faints-jobcentre-forcing-600-people-quarantine.html#ixzz3Av7SHUxv</a><br />Follow us: <a href="http://ec.tynt.com/b/rw?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&u=MailOnline" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@MailOnline on Twitter</a> | <a href="http://ec.tynt.com/b/rf?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&u=DailyMail" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">DailyMail on Facebook</a></span><br /> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said the testing in the city's Charite hospital would take some time.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'The patient was isolated inside the ambulance, the staff took the appropriate protective measures. 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+6</span></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Precautions: An ambulance carries a suspected Ebola virus carrier to Charite hospital </span></div> </div> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="height: auto; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Plague: Job seekers and jobcentre employees wait for permission from police to leave the building after it was put on lockdown by emergency services scared that they might have been infected with Ebola virus" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="3" height="422" id="i-83c24f554fc13d2d" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/19/1408463860517_wps_11_BERLIN_GERMANY_AUGUST_19_.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+6</span></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Plague: Job seekers and jobcentre employees wait for permission from police to leave the building after it was put on lockdown by emergency services scared that they might have been infected with Ebola virus</span></div> </div> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="height: auto; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="All clear: Those held in the jobcentre are finally freed after they are judged unlikely to have become infected" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="4" height="426" id="i-8ed7fb2f5ac4c8b2" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/19/1408463873781_wps_12_BERLIN_GERMANY_AUGUST_19_.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+6</span></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All clear: Those held in the jobcentre are finally freed after they are judged unlikely to have become infected</span></div> </div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The woman had turned up at the employment bureau with a high fever. A spokesman for the city's health authority said emergency services were called after the woman collapsed.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All 600 people quarantined within the centre were in the suspected victim's vicinity before she collapsed.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">West Africa's Ebola epidemic, which has hit four nations since it broke out in Guinea early this year, is by far the deadliest since the virus was discovered four decades ago in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The World Health Organization said today the Ebola virus had killed 84 people in just three days, bringing the global death toll to 1,229, while confirmed, probable and suspect infections rose to 2,240.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The outbreak is not yet under control, the UN health agency said, although there have been no confirmed cases of the disease spreading beyond the region at its centre.</span></div> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="mol-img" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="image-wrap" style="cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Prepared: Infectious disease specialist Florian Steiner, leftm and quarantine office leader Thomas Klotzkowski disinfect themselves during a demonstration at Berlin's Charite hospital last week" class="blkBorder img-share" data-track-pos="5" height="459" id="i-9d4a15094f449e49" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/19/1408464060007_wps_14_Infectious_disease_specia.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="634" /></span><div class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery" style="background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; bottom: 11px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; height: 36px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px;"> <div class="mobile-gallery-icon" style="background-image: url(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/furniture/mobile/icon_camera_90x68.png); background-position: 10px 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 27px; box-sizing: content-box; display: table-cell; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 7px 10px 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;"> </div> <span style="display: table-cell; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 2px; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">+6</span></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="imageCaption" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Prepared: Infectious disease specialist Florian Steiner, leftm and quarantine office leader Thomas Klotzkowski disinfect themselves during a demonstration at Berlin's Charite hospital last week</span></div> </div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A spokesman said: 'As recent experience shows, progress is fragile, with a real risk that the outbreak could experience another flare-up.</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">'A case in a previously unaffected area was reported last week, indicating continuing spread to new areas.'</span></div> <div class="mol-para-with-font" style="min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">European countries have been taking precautions against a possible spread, with Berlin's Charite hospital, where the woman showing symptoms was taken today, last week holding a photocall for the media to publicise its readiness. </span></div> </div>

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Ebola: Why U.S. won't give Nigeria experimental drug, Zmapp — U.S. Ambassador

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6898470381004524941" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 670px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaxy1PA14eIN9oKDOGxDahXpvw61W6bjeiXmyXGvrXRxIKCphWLPpjyUwjsfMB-PquBcd8rr6MrXKEGq0daulOV38dSda2CtQ6G3R2Kn3LUztKXAa90XF195f3ZHLXyiuZdjh2S2jzhmA/s1600/US-ambassador-and-nig-min-of-health-1726x1080.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaxy1PA14eIN9oKDOGxDahXpvw61W6bjeiXmyXGvrXRxIKCphWLPpjyUwjsfMB-PquBcd8rr6MrXKEGq0daulOV38dSda2CtQ6G3R2Kn3LUztKXAa90XF195f3ZHLXyiuZdjh2S2jzhmA/s1600/US-ambassador-and-nig-min-of-health-1726x1080.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The American Ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwistle, on Monday said his country was not yet in a position to make the Ebola Disease experimental drug, Zmapp, available to Nigeria. Mr. Entwistle said during a visit to the Nigerian Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, that the drug was not yet available in sufficient quantity to go round all the countries requesting it. The ambassador did not say when the drug would be available for Africa’s most populous country. He only advised the Nigerian health ministry to focus on isolation, screening and prevention. Mr. Entwistle commended the efforts of the Federal Government in curbing the spread of the Ebola virus in the country.<br /><br />He said the aim of the visit was to discuss further on the anti-Ebola cooperation between the U.S government and the Nigerian government. The ambassador also praised the work done at the emergency operation centre and the isolation centre, saying he understood that they were working hard. “You have all seen the headlines over the weekend, this is an issue that we have to keep working hard on, it may be with us for a while but there are some encouraging signs.<br /><br />“Your government is doing a good job on contact tracing; I noticed when I flew back here on Thursday night into the country, before I left the plane I filed in the questionnaire. “I was very impressed because I had to put in my seat number which is a very good idea, so that if you have to trace the guy who was seating next to me you will know where I am. “I have been very impressed by this thing so I encourage the government of Nigeria to keep at it, which I know they will,” he said. Mr.Entwistle said the two countries had a broad partnership to keep collaborating, cooperating and working hard to make the world a better place. He said he could not think of a more important example of cooperation than the Ebola cooperation. Speaking during the visit, the Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, said the Nigerian Government was withholding its approval for the Anti-Ebola drug Nano-Silver produced by a Nigerian because it did not meet the requirements of the National Health Research Ethics Code. He said that the Nano Silver drug, which was made available to the Emergency Operations Centre in Lagos on August 14, did not meet basic research requirements. “The experimental drug, Nano Silver did not meet the requirements of the National Health Research Ethics Code. “Accordingly, the approval was withheld by the National Health Research Ethics Committee,” Mr. Chukwu said. He said the ambassador’s visit was an opportunity to share ideas and information on Ebola virus. “He is the spokesperson for the United States’ government here in Nigeria, and so he came to me as the Chief Public Health Officer of the country to exchange views with me,” Mr. Chukwu said. The minister said Mr. Entwistle also visited to know if there was any new development that recently cropped up on the Ebola virus.</span></div> </div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <img alt="" src="http://www.tribune.com.ng/images/ebola-lag.jpg" style="border: 0px; float: left; height: auto; margin: 10px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In Lagos, newspaper stands are not spots for idlers. They are meeting points for thinkers, intellectuals, and public speakers. There is no discrimination: everybody is welcome. Sometimes, there are fights; many times people shout and scream and curse and swear. But since Ebola became an issue in Nigeria, newspaper stands in Lagos have become a rallying point for concerned voices.</span></div> <center style="height: 0px; margin: auto; overflow: hidden; width: auto;"> <div style="padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; text-align: left;"> </div> <div id="ebzNative"> </div> </center> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">New Garage in Gbagada, Estate Bus Stop at Alapere and Ketu Market are just a few of the most rowdy spots observed by Saturday Tribune. On this day, most of the dailies had reported that Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian whose visit to Nigeria a couple of months ago, ushered the deadly virus into the country, was indeed aware he was infected before the visit.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“God will punish this man!” one man exclaimed, at New Garage.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“He will rot in the pit of hell,” another man agreed.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Ah…ah! Some people are very wicked!”</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Heartless!’</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I say it will not be well for him and his generation!”</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Please, don’t say things like that,’ a bespectacled middle-aged man said very quietly.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And it was at this point that all hell was let loose. Almost everyone turned to face this man.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Mr Man if you don’t know what to say, just keep quiet!”</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Do you know how many people have died?”</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Do you know how deadly this disease is?”</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This argument continued for a very long time. Sometimes, smaller groups are formed out of the larger group, particularly when there are too many dissenting voices. </span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The fear of Ebola in Lagos is as real as the disease itself. Fear, panic, worry, frustration and disillusionment have been unleashed on the streets, markets, schools and offices. It is difficult to find people in groups discussing issues that are not related to Ebola. Where this is not the case, one has only to wait for a few minutes and Ebola is sure to creep in. </span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The search for the cure of the virus is a common pastime in Lagos. Not many people appear to be waiting for help to emerge from the laboratories of Nigerian scientists, and there are already a lot of conspiracy theories concerning America’s unwillingness to dispatch to Nigeria the drug they worked so hard to produce. Left to their own devices, many Nigerians (particularly those in Lagos) have taken to mischief-making and storytelling. The myths about Ebola cure and prevention continue to multiply on a daily basis. From kola nuts to hand-sanitisers, and from salt to alcohol, they are so numerous. </span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Indeed, the claim by Professor Maurice Iwu that bitter kola could cure Ebola was interesting on many counts. </span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">First, it was quite simply refreshing: Nigerians were really talking about research and innovation. Second, it was bitter kola! It was not some chemical or some ancient plant; it was kola nut. And third, it was Professor Maurice Iwu.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And as if to further heighten the tension in Lagos over the menace, several media reports soon began to allege that the price of bitter kola had, in fact, increased dramatically in Lagos. </span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This, however, did not prove to be the case when Saturday Tribune visited Bariga Market last weekend. It was available at different shops, and along the road. An average nut cost N10: it had always been sold at this price, a seller told Saturday Tribune. </span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There is also the case of hand sanitisers. A trader told Saturday Tribune that the prices of hand sanitisers did not exactly change. ‘It’s just that it’s in demand now,’ he said. ‘More people now come to ask for it than before.’ Different brands were on offer. Most prices range between N500 and N1000, depending mainly on the size. But hand sanitisers have indeed become very popular in Lagos. It is quite common to find people (particularly women) applying it every now and then – on buses, along the road, at events, and so on.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nobody knows who it was that ‘discovered’ the ‘salt treatment’ for Ebola. But, really, people somehow began to hint that salt possessed the power to prevent and cure the virus. It was said it could either be ingested or used in bathing water. The Federal Ministry of Health has however stated that salt and water do not in any way cure or prevent Ebola. </span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There are still a number of people who believe it’s not salt but alcohol that can perform this all-important task. The problem, as with salt, concerns the dosage. People ask: how much need to be taken? The danger, again, of this belief becomes immediately obvious.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Workplaces in Lagos, particularly those in the posh parts, have put several measures in place to manage this situation. A young woman who works at Victoria Island told Saturday Tribune that workers at her office are subjected to medical screening, every morning, before they are allowed to go in; whenever a worker’s temperature is observed to be high,  he or she is asked to go home, and to return as soon as their health improves.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“It is not fashionable anymore to get sick (it probably never was!) But nobody likes to talk about sickness any more. Ebola symptoms are sometimes similar to those of malaria or typhoid, reports have shown. There is also the fear of visiting hospitals: there is no telling whom one may run into, or have contact with!,” she said. </span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But by far the most intriguing aspects of the fear of Ebola in Lagos are the jokes that are spun almost on a daily basis. Many people however have pointed out that the Ebola situation is far too grave to warrant any form of jokes. But Nigerians in Lagos are fun-loving people: such puritanical views do not mean much to them.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One of the earliest jokes comes in the form of advice. Names such as ‘Adebola’ ‘Oyebola’ and ‘Irebola’ are identified as carriers of the Ebola Virus. To avoid contacting the disease, one must stay away from people who are so named. Well, it is not clear whether this is exactly funny. But that itself may well be the source of its humour.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There is another. A man is hospitalised. His wife and his children are devastated: they suspect it’s Ebola; all the vital signs are there. At the hospital, however, they are told that it is HIV. So great is their joy that they organise a get-together to announce to their friends that it’s only HIV. </span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yes, there is Ebola in Lagos, but there is also a shared resolve by residents to make it go away. In fact, someone has even said that Ebola cannot survive in Nigeria, but it was not clear whether this speaker intended for it to be a statement of faith, a call for action or yet another joke.</span></div> </div>

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146 patients recover, says group

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="single-post-thumb" style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Chukwu" class="attachment-slider wp-post-image" data-cfsrc="http://thenationonlineng.net/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Prof-Onyebuchi-Chukwu.jpg" height="201" src="http://thenationonlineng.net/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Prof-Onyebuchi-Chukwu.jpg" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: 620px;" width="251" /></span></div> <div class="single-post-caption" style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chukwu</span></div> <div class="post-inner" style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 20px 0px;"> <h1 class="name post-title entry-title" itemprop="itemReviewed" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Thing" style="border: 0px none; font-weight: normal; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"> <span itemprop="name" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">146 patients recover, says group</span></span></h1> <div class="post-meta" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 7px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 5px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="post-meta-author" style="border: 0px none; display: inline-block; list-style: none; margin: 0px 8px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Posted by: <a href="http://thenationonlineng.net/new/author/rilwan/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" title="">Seun Akioye</a></span> <span class="post-cats" style="border: 0px none; 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text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ONE hundred and forty-six patients have recovered from the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF), also called Doctors Without Border, has said.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">MSF, which has established Ebola treatment centres in the three countries, explained that once a patient recovers from the disease, such a patient becomes immune to the virus and could continue to live a normal healthy life.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The group also said an Ebola outbreak is considered to end once no new case is reported after 42 days.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In Conakry, the Guinean capital, the MSF said it admitted 232 patients with 124 confirmed Ebola cases.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The group said 64 of them recovered and returned home.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In Gueckedou, also in Guinea, of the 366 patients admitted, 169 were confirmed to have Ebola; 46 recovered and returned home.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In Sierra Leone, MSF said of the 174 confirmed Ebola patients it admitted, 36 recovered and nine were discharged on August 4, after they recovered from the disease.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In 2012, the MSF effectively contained an Ebola outbreak in Uganda by placing a control area around the treatment centre.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The organisation has 676 workers in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">MSF said it would support any effort by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to find a vaccine for the disease.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It said: “MSF welcomes the steps the WHO is taking to adopt exceptional regulatory procedures in the face of an exceptionally grave Ebola epidemic. MSF is keen that its patients benefit from any treatment that shows promise, and will continue to work with the WHO and other organisations to support an appropriate acceleration of procedure for any treatment that is considered a good candidate for a medical trial.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The responsibility for selection of a treatment and the definition of the ethical framework for this will be in the hands of the WHO and the ministries of Health of the countries where the epidemic has spread.”</span></div> <div class="printfriendly pf-alignright" style="border: 0px none; float: right; list-style: none; margin: 12px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.printfriendly.com/print?url=http%3A%2F%2Fthenationonlineng.net%2Fnew%2F146-patients-recover-says-group%2F" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: none; line-height: normal; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: bottom;"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Print Friendly" data-cfsrc="http://cdn.printfriendly.com/pf-button.gif" data-cfstyle="border:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none; box-shadow:none;" src="http://cdn.printfriendly.com/pf-button.gif" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; border: none; box-shadow: none; display: inline-block; height: auto; list-style: none; margin: 0px 6px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px;" /></span></a></div> </div> </div> <div class="share-post" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(234, 234, 234); border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(234, 234, 234); border-width: 1px 0px; clear: both; height: 20px; list-style: none; margin: 10px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 10px 0px 10px 10px;"> <ul style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"> <li style="border: 0px none; float: left; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; width: 106px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><iframe allowtransparency="true" class="twitter-share-button twitter-tweet-button twitter-share-button twitter-count-horizontal" data-twttr-rendered="true" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/tweet_button.1407888064.html#_=1408094257605&count=horizontal&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&original_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fthenationonlineng.net%2Fnew%2F146-patients-recover-says-group%2F&size=m&text=146%20patients%20recover%2C%20says%20group&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthenationonlineng.net%2Fnew%2F146-patients-recover-says-group%2F&via=thenationnews" style="border-style: none; border-width: 0px; height: 20px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: 107px;" title="Twitter Tweet Button"></iframe></span></li> <li style="border: 0px none; float: left; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; width: 106px;"><div class=" fb_reset" id="fb-root" style="background-image: none; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; cursor: auto; direction: ltr; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; text-shadow: none; visibility: visible;"> <div style="border: 0px none; height: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: -10000px; width: 0px;"> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"> </div> </div> <div style="border: 0px none; height: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: -10000px; width: 0px;"> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><iframe allowtransparency="true" aria-hidden="true" frameborder="0" id="fb_xdm_frame_http" name="fb_xdm_frame_http" scrolling="no" src="http://static.ak.facebook.com/connect/xd_arbiter/FX-Xf5fQjUk.js?version=41#channel=f1c001be68&origin=http%3A%2F%2Fthenationonlineng.net" style="border-style: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" tabindex="-1" title="Facebook Cross Domain Communication Frame"></iframe></span></div> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div>

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Team Nigeria Pulls Out of Nanjing 2014 in China over discrimination of Ebola

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Team Nigeria Pulls Out of Nanjing 2014 in China over discrimination of Ebola</span></span></h3> <div class="post-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"> <div class="post-header-line-1"> </div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7768260102472763059" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 670px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Te33UfWe4-4kAJsU1pXP6xy6zQEbkoBIQz4095ede9tx5TIJPy9nx93WS-NA380_pMA1B8k-vGMy5YQYm__4VgQ1C-iKU38APkO5trz6Ij5fGKCPt8KJQN7zFoLfwAcXAWXyWqXw-0Cc/s1600/Licensed_Products_of_Nanjing_2014_Youth_Olympic_Games.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Te33UfWe4-4kAJsU1pXP6xy6zQEbkoBIQz4095ede9tx5TIJPy9nx93WS-NA380_pMA1B8k-vGMy5YQYm__4VgQ1C-iKU38APkO5trz6Ij5fGKCPt8KJQN7zFoLfwAcXAWXyWqXw-0Cc/s1600/Licensed_Products_of_Nanjing_2014_Youth_Olympic_Games.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nigerian athletes and officials to the on-going 2014 Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China have been directed to leave and come home after the country pulled out of the competition on Wednesday following discrimination against its athletes.<br /><br />Acording to reports, Sierra Leone were the first country to reveal that they had pulled out following pressure from the Chinese authorities. A few hours later they were joined by Nigeria, who withdrew their team in protest at how they had been treated in China. Gbenga Elegbeleye, director general of the National Sports Commission, said:</span><blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Nigerian athletes were quarantined, isolated and barred from training alongside athletes from other countries since they arrived the competition venue over news of Ebola virus in Nigeria. Following this discrimination, we have resolved to pull out from the Games."</span></blockquote> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In a statement signed Wednesday by the Director General of the National Sports Commission, Hon Gbenga Elegbeleye Nigeria protested to the organisers that the treatment to the Nigerian athletes were inhuman.<br /><br />The decision to withdraw Team Nigeria from the Games was taken after a meeting with Sports Minister, Dr Tammy Danagogo, Nigeria Olympic Committee, NOC, President, Engr Sani M. Ndanusa and the Director General of the National sports Commission, Hon Gbenga Elegbeleye.<br /><br />The Youth Olympics is scheduled to hold from August 16 to August 18, and team Nigeria were to participate in three sports – Athletics, Wrestling and Beach Vollleyball, with twelve athletes.</span></div> </div>

Team Nigeria Pulls Out of Nanjing 2014 in China over discrimination of Ebola

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Quarantine Lagos nurse fled to Enugu her home town

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Quarantine Lagos nurse fled to Enugu her home town

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