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Ebola: Japan Offers Drug, Nigerian Patient To Be Discharged by johndanny(m): 5:42am On Aug 26, 2014 |
Fresh hope appears in the horizon for Ebola patients as Japan on Monday expressed its readiness to provide its anti-influenza drug as treatment for the deadly virus. Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary, Yoshihide Suga, made the offer hours after a group of scientist in the United Kingdom said it had discovered that the largest outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease was caused by an infected fruit bat that bit a toddler. Briefing journalists in Tokyo on Monday, Suga said Japan was ready to offer the drug, Favipiravir, which was developed by Toyama Chemical, a subsidiary of Fujifilm, any time the World Health Organisation requested it. Approved by the Japanese health ministry in March, Favipiravir is a tablet developed for the treatment of novel and re-emerging influenza viruses. Suga, according to the Agence France Presse, said Japan was waiting for WHO’s decision on further details over the use of untested drugs. He however said that “in case of an emergency, Japan may respond to individual requests before any further decision by the WHO.” The spokesperson for the company, Takao Aoki, said Fujifilm had initiated talks with the United States on how the drug could be adopted in treating EVD. He said, “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. It was however not known as of Thursday last week if Favipiravir is the drug the Federal Ministry of Health had said it had requested from a foreign country. The ministry which turned down a trial drug, Nano Silver, had applied for ZMapp which was administered on two US aid workers who contracted the virus in Liberia. The two were discharged last Thursday, a few days after Washington said it did not have enough XMapp to send to countries in need of it. ZMapp fails Liberian doctor However, a Liberian doctor , Abraham Borbor, has died despite taking ZMapp, according to a statement by the Liberia’s information minister, Lewis Brown. Borbor was one of three doctors in Liberia who had been given ZMapp and was showing signs of recovery. “Borbor was showing signs of improvement but on Sunday, he took a turn for the worse,” Brown told the British Broadcasting Corporation. Meanwhile, the Federal Government on Monday reversed the number of confirmed EVD cases in Nigeria from 14 to 13. Health Minister, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu, said while briefing journalists in Abuja that the development followed the outcome of a further confirmation test conducted on the 14th case, which turned out to be negative. He also said another patient in the isolation centre in Lagos had after receiving treatment tested negative. The patient, according to him, will be dicharged before Wednesday. He said the development would bring from four to two, the number of patients still in the isolation ward. The minister added that the number of deaths recorded so far in the country as a result of the disease still remained five, including the Late Patrick Sawyer, who brought the EVD to Nigeria from Liberia. Chukwu said, “We have been able to manage and discharge five persons who had tested positive to the deadly virus, while the sixth person would be dicharged within the next 48 hours. “For each case that tested negative, we run further confirmatory tests to make sure that anybody that is labelled as EVD victim, is truly having the disease. “The 14th case has turned out to be negative in terms of anaemia and symptoms, so that has now reversed number of EVD cases in Nigeria from 14 to 13 and that includes the index case (Sawyer). “As of today (Monday), we have three patients receiving treatment in the isolation ward in Lagos but certainly, before Wednesday, one of them would be discharged because he has tested negative and we are now concluding his discharge process.” The ministry also denied reports (The PUNCH not included) which claimed that the younger sister of the late Dr. Stella Adadevoh, had tested positive to the EVD. The minister’s Special Adviser on Media and Communications, Dan Nwomeh, said on Monday that no new patient had been admitted into the treatment centre in Lagos. He said, “We are not aware of that development, but to avoid any confusion, Minister of Health reiterates that he has the sole authority to announce confirmed and discharged EVD cases. “Any doubtful information on the outbreak of EVD should be verified from the office of the minister , we are on all social media platforms.” A group of 17 UK-based European and African scientists have found out that the largest outbreak of the EVD was caused by an infected fruit bats that bit a toddler. The tropical disease researchers, ecologists and anthropologists had spent three weeks investigating the outbreak of the disease in Nigeria, Guinea, Liberia and Ivory Coast. According to the Daily Mail, the scientists captured some bats and other creatures near the village of Meliandoua in Guinea, where the present epidemic began last year in December. According to the scientists, the toddler, who was bitten by a fruit bat passed the infection on to his mother and both died within a week. The disease was then spread far and wide by mourners who attended their funeral. Scientists have long believed that bats are the main carriers for the disease but it is rare for them to pass it on to man. Most of the previous outbreaks have been caused by meat from dead infected animals collected by hunters who then sell it on. Fruit bats, however, are widely eaten in some rural areas of West Africa – either smoked, grilled or in a spicy soup. The team led by epidemiologist Fabian Leendertz, a disease ecologist at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, are expected to publish their results in a major journal soon. Initial research believed that a new strain of Ebola had emerged in West Africa but according to Herr Leendertz, the strain of the disease is one related to Zaire ebolavirus, identified more than 10 years ago in the Congo. www.punchng.com/news/ebola-japan-offers-drug-nigerian-patient-to-be-discharged/ 1 Like |
Re: Ebola: Japan Offers Drug, Nigerian Patient To Be Discharged by phreakabit(m): 6:29am On Aug 26, 2014 |
When the sun don't shine anymore and it gets dark. . . You'd know your true friends. Because even your own shadow will leave you. God bless you Japan! Time to curb and earadicate this menace. |
Re: Ebola: Japan Offers Drug, Nigerian Patient To Be Discharged by Phame: 7:00am On Aug 26, 2014 |
Which approval is japan waiting for again to get from WHO? WHO has already said untested drugs can be used in d treatment of EVD since it's an emergency and there is no known cure for it. The drug to cure ebola can come from any country, but i hate it to come from d US ; their help is always tied to something. Fawking capitalist! |
Re: Ebola: Japan Offers Drug, Nigerian Patient To Be Discharged by phreakabit(m): 7:49am On Aug 26, 2014 |
Phame: Which approval is japan waiting for again to get from WHO?Its up to Nigeria now. . . Japan has done exceptionally well. Its up to the FGN now. BTW screw the US. |
Re: Ebola: Japan Offers Drug, Nigerian Patient To Be Discharged by hushmail: 7:53am On Aug 26, 2014 |
since zmapp is nolonger d magical cure, d drug favir from japan wont b any different containment remains d best option 4 9ja though dis z not saying we shld not accept drugs fro japan |
Re: Ebola: Japan Offers Drug, Nigerian Patient To Be Discharged by phreakabit(m): 8:04am On Aug 26, 2014 |
hushmail: since zmapp is nolonger d magical cure, d drug favir from japan wont b any different Absolutely true, but we must explore every avenue. We must get this drug and even Tekmira if possible. |
Re: Ebola: Japan Offers Drug, Nigerian Patient To Be Discharged by Phame: 8:31am On Aug 26, 2014 |
phreakabit:the FG wld prefer to get it frm d US. For them, If it is not frm d US, it wont work. They fell to their knees when d US condemned nanosilver and, made u-turn to discredit d drug because d US said so without our medical team carrying out any experinment to prove its efficiency. U can imagine d kind of people we hav in gov't. |
Re: Ebola: Japan Offers Drug, Nigerian Patient To Be Discharged by Nobody: 9:57am On Aug 26, 2014 |
The way SARS got a cure during d tym it was raving Asia, I strongly believe Ebola wil get a cure too. Between, I think it was afta Ebola got 2Nigeria, dat other countries started taking Ebola seriously&experimental drugs began 2evolve.What happened b4 then? Cos it said d scientists discovered dat d virus came 2being afta a toddler was bitten by a fruit bat in December&Liberia recorded their 1st case in March. B4 then, y didn't these countries do somethng abt d virus til foreigners got infected&it also found its way 2Nigeria. Nigeria is a whistle blower anyway&once somethng gets 2Nigeria,trust me,its wil b evrywhere in d world cos Nigerians travel a lot. Anyway,we pray 2God 4dis Japanese drug 2b d IT drug as in d hardcore curer of Ebola virus disease. In God we trust |
Re: Ebola: Japan Offers Drug, Nigerian Patient To Be Discharged by Frankenstein: 10:56am On Aug 26, 2014 |
phreakabit: When the sun don't shine anymore and it gets dark. . . You'd know your true friends. Because even your own shadow will leave you. God bless you Japan! Time to curb and earadicate this menace.Japan is your friend? Haha. What a joke! All these companies trying to get their untested drugs approved are after the long term profit. Right now, Mapp pharmaceuticals is working vigorously to produce a large stockpile of Zmapp to send to Africa and make profit. By the way, if this Japanese favipiravir works, they will mass-produce it and sell tons of it to African nations. These are profit-oriented companies involved. |
Re: Ebola: Japan Offers Drug, Nigerian Patient To Be Discharged by Frankenstein: 10:59am On Aug 26, 2014 |
Phame: the FG wld prefer to get it frm d US. For them, If it is not frm d US, it wont work. They fell to their knees when d US condemned nanosilver and, made u-turn to discredit d drug because d US said so without our medical team carrying out any experinment to prove its efficiency. U can imagine d kind of people we hav in gov't.How do you know the medical team didn't carry out any test to prove it's efficacy? Please tell me your source of info. |
Re: Ebola: Japan Offers Drug, Nigerian Patient To Be Discharged by phreakabit(m): 11:21am On Aug 26, 2014 |
Frankenstein: Japan is your friend? Haha. What a joke! All these companies trying to get their untested drugs approved are after the long term profit. Nothing is free bro. If we pay for it. . . ts only fair deal if you ask me. Whoever developed this spent years and time doing so, and thus deserves some credit monetarily or otherwise. profiteering is human nature after all. At least they didn't hide it from Africa unlike some animals I know. 1 Like |
Re: Ebola: Japan Offers Drug, Nigerian Patient To Be Discharged by Nobody: 11:37am On Aug 26, 2014 |
johndanny:That's d way disease spread.The traditional healer wil try 2use his herbs 2heal then contact d virus&transfer it 2his family Then Mourners wil com 2pay their last respect&carry their own. Then they'l run 2church 4healing&it'l spread further.Frm d pastor&prayer warriors laying hand on d ebola carrier who's already showing symptoms to family member,staff,neighbours, ppl at d markt&so on. Family members caring 4all d infected ones are usually d 1st victims. Then there goes d unserious govt who refuses 2do anythng lik containment of d outbreak; warning neighbouring countries&closing boarders&screening travellers in d Likes of Patrick Sawyer who brought it 2Nigeria further spread it across other Nations. God help us. |
Re: Ebola: Japan Offers Drug, Nigerian Patient To Be Discharged by Beync(f): 11:45am On Aug 26, 2014 |
What drug are they using to treat all those being discharged and those waiting to be discharged pls? Is it our bitter cola, immune booster, or nanosilver? And why is it that while some die especially the two female doctors/nurse, some survive? Pls I'll like to know |
Re: Ebola: Japan Offers Drug, Nigerian Patient To Be Discharged by conyema12(m): 2:58pm On Aug 26, 2014 |
Beync: What drug are they using to treat all those being discharged and those waiting to be discharged pls? Is it our bitter cola, immune booster, or nanosilver? And why is it that while some die especially the two female doctors/nurse, some survive? Pls I'll like to know I feel those they claim to have healed are the suspected cases. Whenever they complete their incubation period without the virus manifesting, they patient will be discharged. The female doctor with the nurses all had grade one contact with the evil sawyer. I also will like to believe that immunity plays a role. Some people s immunity can be quite high, in that case the person s body system will fight off the virus at the onset. other established professional can correct me if am wrong. |
Re: Ebola: Japan Offers Drug, Nigerian Patient To Be Discharged by Beync(f): 3:36pm On Aug 26, 2014 |
conyema12:yes I had about that immunity in relation to a particular genetic type that can fight the virus thou but I just want to know whether those people were actually treated and with what drug |
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