Dear NLs,
I don't want to Start another Salt and Water Type Madness in the Country, but I stumbled upon something that has been Puzzling me since yesterday!
An Old Igala man who appeared not too literate caught my attention yesterday when He saw us talking about Ebola and made his input!
He asked how the Disease was Transmitted and How Sufferers Presented, We Told him! and Lo and Behold, He told us His Grandfather once told him about a Disease that Affected Hunters who ate Monkeys and Gorillas and that those Hunters if left untreated Died within Days bleeding from various Orifices!
And that the Only Cure back then was giving the Afflicted a Remedy consisting of a Piece of Cured Tobacco(the Types our Grandmas Braid and keep in their Mud Kitchens) dissolved in water!
He was so sure of this treatment regimen that he said we should ask any Ebola patient to try it! We laughed him off and told him modern medicine was the ultimate!

I decided to read more on Zmapp in my free time last night and was Shocked to Discover that the Monoclonal Antibodies that formed the Core of the Drug were Cultured on TOBACCO LEAVES!!!
I was so shocked by the Apparent Coincidence that I called my Colleagues in the Dead of the Night to tell them!
We've been discussing the coincidence in the Office all morning and have been asking the Questions below:

1. Could the Old Man be Right? Considering that the same process of genetic re-assortment and purification of Monoclonal Antibodies carried out with Extracts of Tobacco in-Vitro Could ALSO OCCUR in-Vivo so long as the active substance circulated in the Blood Stream?!!!

2. Can the Presidential Committee on finding Ebola-Cure investigate this Claim and build upon it(considering that there is a Potent Lead as regards Zmapp)?

3. Did the Americans Steal From Us, What We Already Knew??

Oya NL Bad-Belles! Start bashing the thread for being unscientific because the Old Igala man isn't an Oyibo!

Me I don talk am say Na African solution will cure this Ebola disease since it is an African infection. There is no disease that doesn't have solution. Our ignorance and excessive embrace of while man's culture is the root of our problem. @OP, if I were you, I will liase with some students of microbiology and pharmacology to carry out more research on this information. God might have just shown you your goldmine.

Hmmmm

topsy1971: Me I don talk am say Na African solution will cure this Ebola disease since it is an African infection. There is no disease that doesn't have solution. Our ignorance and excessive embrace of while man's culture is the root of our problem. @OP, if I were you, I will liase with some students of microbiology and pharmacology to carry out more research on this information. God might have just shown you your goldmine.

Honestly, You are Right! The Essence of bringing it to this Forum is to see if NL Scientists can take up this matter!
The only Problem is that the Virus is too Virulent for Students to tamper with it without an Ultra-Modern Lab that will protect them!
The Hope is for the Mods to move this matter to Frontpage! Who knows who will be interested in taking up the matter in terms of funding?
I'll be a Glad man should Nigeria discover an Indigenous Cure 4 this!

Abeg Mod! Help us na!

It may sound stupid oo but me i dey go buy utaba leave keep for house. Before it will be out of stock.

Oya mama ebere, give me 15, 000 worth of utaba leave, mama abeg keep am for ur uko-chimney.

Am interested in this solution bound halla doliphils@gmail.com

This thread is a reflection of Nigeria. Such an important and enlightening thread will not b moved to front page where it ll generate greater view n ppl go into research; it is Left in this quiet place. While many useless threads r on d FP.

Nice job OP. I've also been of the opinion that the solution to ebola lies in our bushes begging for us to come pluck them, grind mix and drink.