U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) suffers huge
social media backlash from Nigerians yesterday, over
its description of Nano Silver as a pesticide, a drug
which was recently announced by the country’s
Health Minister, Onyebuchi Chukwu, to be an
experimental treatment of patients affected with the
deadly Ebola disease.
The FDA’s warning was made on the heels of
comments by Chukwu, who reportedly said on
Thursday that eight Ebola patients in Lagos will
receive an experimental treatment called nano-silver.
The agency said it had received consumer complaints
about the Ebola claims. “Individuals promoting these
unapproved and fraudulent products must take
immediate action to correct or remove these claims or
face potential FDA action,” the agency said. Click here
for more on FDA’s warning on Nigeria’s Nano Silver
As the US FDA’s warning went viral, Nigerians erupted
with outrage on social media as they mostly express
the need for their country to protect lives of its
citizenry after US declined giving out its’ Zimapp.
One Joseph Anthony writes, “West made a lot of
mistakes on the road to there so called “state of art
medicines”. We had no opportunity to scrutinize
Zmapp. Let’s take a bold step to try something.
Nothing is as strong as a proof.
We may try it with rodents and watch out for cultured
results or patterns and if we get the gut feeling to
proceed based on the results the why not! Let’s
ignore everyone. For once let’s look inward for
solutions we are not toilet to receive processed
products by others.” He ended
Another commentator, who identifies self as Zuby
expressed that when an African says he can cure AIDS
or Ebola they tell him to shut up, say it’s impossible or
not possible without testing it. He stressed that the
drug should be offered to one person who already has
Ebola and if it doesn’t work then we know for sure it’s
doesn’t.
Abidemi Adekunle pleaded with America, saying they
should be magnanimous enough to release the very
drug that is working for them to other nations now
that WHO has authorised the use of experimental
drug.
“If its pesticide, we need it that’s all. How do we
come about Ebola? In fact I guess they cultured the
virus and send it to Africa because we rejected gay
marriage. If you could remember that such has been
done some years back against China through SARS”
says one Anigbogu Okechukwu

They should go ahead and use it then