Seoul - A South Korean
university rescinded an
invitation for three Nigerians
to attend a conference and a
group of South Korean
medical volunteers called off a trip to West Africa amid
growing concerns about the
spread of the deadly Ebola
virus. The Duksung Women's
University in Seoul said in a
statement the school "politely
withdrew" its invitation for
three Nigerian students to
attend an international conference that it is co-hosting
with the United Nations
starting from Monday. Fear about a possible spread of
the deadly virus had
prompted a student from the
university to post a plea on
the country's presidential
office Web site, asking for the cancellation of the entire
event. The university has said it was
going ahead with the
conference to be attended by
students, including 28 from
Africa. Since February, more than 700
people in West Africa have
died from Ebola, a
hemorrhagic virus with a
death rate of up to 90 percent
of those infected. The fatality rate in the current epidemic is
about 60 percent.

South Korea on Monday issued
a special travel advisory
asking people to refrain from
visiting Liberia, Sierra Leone
and Guinea, while a group of
South Korean medical volunteer workers scrapped
an annual trip to African
countries including Côte
d'Ivoire and Ghana scheduled
for August. South Korean bloggers have
posted online petitions,
including one urging South
Korean missionaries working
in the region be barred from
returning home.
West African leaders agreed
last week to take stronger
measures to try to bring the
worst outbreak of Ebola
under control and prevent it
spreading outside the region, including steps to isolate rural
communities ravaged by the
disease.

An American doctor stricken
with the deadly Ebola virus
while in Liberia and brought
to the United States for
treatment in a special isolation
ward is improving, the top U.S. health official said on
Sunday.

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ok

Wtf

Bullshit

ezex: Bullshit

Blaqsmith: Wtf

Prodigee: ok

What is wrong with you guys?

On a lighter note : in light of the recent scare of ebola in Lagos I'm therefore using God Almighty who created heaven and earth to beg everyone wey im name get 'ebola' inside e.g. Adebola, Okebola, Orebola, Oyebola, Ojebola, Otebola, Debola etc not to attempt to shake or hug me till further notice. Na GOD I take beg o!.....

Nobleval: What is wrong with you guys?

For real? are they outta their minds...there's no other clear case of ebola apart from that sawyer dude that died. This is why i hate this government, make we self close our borders they refused.

If all the Europe, America and all the advanced countries will even ban us plus our useless leaders from coming to their countries, it will be good.

dulaman: On a lighter note : in light of the recent scare of ebola in Lagos I'm therefore using God Almighty who created heaven and earth to beg everyone wey im name get 'ebola' inside e.g. Adebola, Okebola, Orebola, Oyebola, Ojebola, Otebola, Debola etc not to attempt to shake or hug me till further notice. Na GOD I take beg o!.....

chairman, we are tired of seeing this everywhere

Do you eat likes?

Our govt is trying so hard to downplay the threat posed by the outbreak of this disease, but governments around the world know better!!

Conditions on ground are absolutely suitable for the easy spread of the disease. The only people that stand a good chance of escaping are the rich and influential.

We know the virus is spread through contact with body fluids of infected persons and consumption of meats of infected animals,, and the poor are VERY exposed to these:

1) The sanitary conditions of our public facilities leave so much to be desired. You walk into the toilets of public run schools, from primary schools to universities, to take a dump or take a leak, and what you see could make the urge to do what you went to do vanish in an instant. People go in and urinate (sometimes even defeacate) on the ground. You have no idea if those people have been infected or not!!

2) The sanitary conditions of our prisons and detention facilities also leave so damn much to be desired. Imagine what would happen to inmates should such a disease find its way into our these facilities!!!

3) Most middle class workers rely heavily on "mama put" for their meals. We have no clue as to the conditions under which these meals were cooked!! We don't know who or what came in contact with the items used in preparing those meals. They wash used plates and cutleries and reuse the water over and over again!! You have no idea what the saliva of the other customer contains!!

4) Our medical facilities find it very difficult maintaining very basic safety standards. You go to a FG run medical facility and won't be surprised to discover they are out of simple hand gloves!!!

5) People get cramped into public transport vehicles (molue, danfo, kabukabu, etc) with skins rubbing against eachother while sweating. You have no idea what the stranger sitting next to you carries in his system!!

6) People live in rented apartments sometimes sharing toilets and bathrooms with 4-5 different neighbours!! You have no idea where your neighbours have been and what they brought back home!!

The list is endless!!

I'm not an alarmist but a realist.

We should protect ourselves as much as possible for those who ought to have created the right environment to guarantee our safety move in airconditioned bulletproof and Ebola proof vehicles, fly in private jets, have their kids in the finest schools, and have already built for themselves foreign fortresses where they could go take shelter whenever sh*t hits the fan!!

Wake up Nigerians!!!

Ebola is primarily a "Fear" virus, its doing a good job.

south korea have had their share of sars, they had to be very careful.

Nice! every government should do what is in the best interest of her citizens

BREAKING NEWS : The doctor who attended to the Liberian Ebola patient has been Infected. Please let's be careful and enlighten others. We hope it doesn't Escalate. DETAILS : www.nairaland.com/1842517/nigerian-doctor-treated-ebola-patient

stevecantrell: Ebola is primarily a "Fear" virus, its doing a good job.

well it seems the fear is becoming a reality. Another case has been recorded.