rickkid:
You are a prostitut and a cheap, trashy one as well. Half and Half is one of your trade terminologies and I demand my entitlement. I feel like desecrating an ugly, empty-headed prostitut.
Get on your knees.

Dibiachukwu: Nobody sees an analogue with HIV story? The story goes this way. African man eat monkey (which he is n8t supposed to do because it is his close relative). Monkey pass disease to African man. African man pass disease to white man. They are trying to justify their evolution lies. This is the same thing they claimed for HIV. If you have ebola. Simply go to your local dibia. He might have some herbs for you. Goodluck everyone.

Did you really write that line I put in bold? Jeez! Something will never change about some ignorant Nigerians. Indeed, your case is far beyond ignorance!

ceejayluv:
Don't tell me you dunno that ebola is transmitted human-to-human through contacts with bodily fluids.... One bat-infected person can cause an Armageddon-level havoc.

All cases in Sierra Leone are traced to a healer that hosted infected patients from Guinea.

Dibiachukwu:
Yes I did and I stand by it. See how you are swallowing white people's propaganda hook line and sinker . This is a very planned infection. Involving top government officials. Any fool that depends on this illegal, british impossed government would have him or herself to blame. I repeat, if you have ebola go to your local dibia for cure. He might have something for you. Do you know how many lives could have been saved or prolonged for a while with the pesticide "nano silver". Toxins are sometimes killed with other "manageable or controlled toxins".

adavize: Paramedics who transported the patient to the hospital have been isolated, Rawlings’ chief of staff said. They have not shown symptoms of the disease so far, Frieden said.

The ambulance used to carry the patient was still in use for two days after the transport, city of Dallas spokeswoman Sana Syed said.

But she emphasised that the paramedics decontaminated the ambulance, as they do after every transport, according to national standards.

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The Ebola patient in Dallas will not be given ZMapp, the experimental drug used to treat several international aid workers and medical staff, including at least two Americans, because stocks have run out.

ZMapp is one of the drugs that is being rushed into trials in the epidemic, along with other drugs that will need more safety data in animals and humans before they are administered to patients.

There have been very few doses available and stocks have all been used up, but the San Diego-based company behind ZMapp is pressing ahead with the manufacture of more supplies. It is not an easy drug to make, however. It includes three man-made antibodies to the virus which are grown in tobacco leaves and take months to produce. (Guardian UK, October 1st 2014)

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

DONT LET YOUR CONSPIRACIES AND HATE GET IN THE WAY OF THE TRUTH. ASK YOUR GOVERNMENT WHAT FACILITIES AND RESEARCH IT HAS PUT IN PLACE.
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Dr. David Brett-Mayor of the World Health Organization saw and conquered Ebola. He single handedly started the Ebola isolation ward having cleared and cleaned the room. He admitted and cared for the patients before any Nigerian doctor joined him.

“Professor S. A. Omilabu, the dedicated virologist at LUTH, saw Ebola and conquered it. He coordinated ......," ?(Fashola speech on October 1st)

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The Bill Gates foundation has pledged $50m to fight Ebola in west Africa, including the hot zones of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
The money will go to research and funding Ebola care efforts that are both private and public.

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we are all citizens of the world, stop hating on others for their success; hold your leaders to account.

Dibiachukwu:
Did you say left us? look who is equpping some of the most corrupt criminal government officials. Look who fought the whole Biafran war for Nigerians. Look who is at every oil minning facility in Nigeria. Yes I will blame them and may the creator burn them with fire.

cap28:

http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/Minister_Louis_Farrakhan_9/article_101804.shtml

RaptorX: Finally someone that know wats up, not all these dumb negroes that think its all conspiracy theories. The LovePeddler of babylon aka USA will be destroyed by fire in 1hr so says the holy bible and that fire is Russian nuclear missiles.

Dibiachukwu:
Put a snake and a dog in a house and see if they can live together. This notion that we are all one people is rubbish. Their are more scammers and thieves in any of those so called civilised countries than their are in Nigeria. When we, the Igbos said we cant live with our historical arch enemies. The whole white world rained bombs on us. Killing our children. May the creator burn them with fire. Public property is taken care of and managed by a public official. If this public official turns out to be a saboteur under the control and tutulage the foreign enemy states. Then you have a direct definition of Nigeria. A country run by sabourteurs taht we are not even sure are related to the general population. Please stop regurgitating useless templates. I am way past that.

bushdoc9919:

That's what you think.

American health authorities are very serious....and American hospitals have isolation facilties that African hospitalscan dream of.

But enough about that...once control measures are in place, Ebola can be stopped. Also the reason why so many die in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea is that many do not go to hospital....they prefer to be taken care of at home or in traditional healer's houses. Most hospitals are not well equiped. And there is still a lot of misinformation out here.

In America...people run to hospital at the first sign of fever.

Also Ebola requires close constant contact to spread, not just a one time contact.(That is why medical people die of the disease in such high numbers...close constant contact).

ceejayluv:
That was the same fear we had after that buffoon went to hide in PH with ebola.., over a hundred people were thenceforth observed.
Duncan fell ill four days after he arrived Dallas.. was confirmed to have ebola four days after. The fact is that so far, there is one confirmed ebola case in the USA. There are high prospects of containment.

abbey621:


Another uneducated post! Pls do research more on Ebola. The disease is not contagious until the individual starts showing symptoms and even then it can only be contracted thru bodily fluids. The individual sought medical treatment immediately he got sick and all the individuals he made contact with have been quarantined, case closed!

dasparrow:

Oh hush you hateful halfbreed. Aren't you the one who never has anything good to say about Nigeria and was probably wishing secretly that ebola wipes all Nigerians in Nigeria out? And then you come here talking about evil intentions. Who has more evil intentions for Nigeria/Nigerians than you the wicked halfbreed who sits on Nairaland all day long talking rubbish about Nigerians being backward. I guess your Nigerian parent is backward too that is why the person gave birth to a backward thinking hateful person like yourself. Go sit your behind down somewhere. Americans treat we Africans like crap anyway in the USA even before the ebola outbreak so is it any wonder why some Nigerians are laughing at arrogant America's current predicament?

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Frankly, I have nothing more to say on this topic. Let arrogant America deal with their new found problem. I'm out!

anitank: These Liberians are just plain wicked! They come in contact with their Ebola relatives, then leave the country for another, hoping to get better treatment and yet refuse to own up until it's too late

This man helped his sister who had Ebola to the hospital just days before he traveled to the US. He got sick and went to a hospital without mentioning his travel history to them so they gave him antibiotics and he left. It was when he got really sick that he was tested for Ebola which came out positive.

Now that he has put a lot of people in danger, I hope he's happy.

bushdoc9919:
crackpot cures like Nano Silver(which was invented by an American, not a Nigerian).

tomiobj: It took them too long, it will kill a few people more in ur perspective . Answer this question honestly. How many people will ebola spread to from one person in 14 days.

RaptorX: What proper research? The white man said ebola came from Africans eating bats and monkeys, is that not what they said, and i am calling bs on that assertion.Since you dont believe that and you dont believe me saying its a man made bio warfare virus, so kindly enlighten us where it came from.

4.3. EBOV emergence in animals

The chronological and geographic characteristics of the different outbreaks in Gabon and DRC between 1995 and 2003 point to a drift from northeast Gabon towards DRC. This raises the possibility that gorillas and chimpanzees are succumbing to a single outbreak that has been devastating animal populations for about 10 years, spreading along a northwest/southeast axis [22].

The EBOV genome is particularly stable. For example, the rate of mutations between strains Booué 96 (Gabon) and Zaire 76 was only 1.7% in the membrane glycoprotein gene (GP), 1.3% in the nucleoprotein (NP), 1.2% in the 40-kDa structural protein VP40, and 0.9% in the 24-kDa structural protein VP24, even though these strains were isolated more than 1000 km, and 20 years apart [44]. Similar genetic differences were found between the 2001 and 2003 outbreak strains and the strains Mekouka 94 (Gabon) and Zaire 76 [19]. Moreover, sequencing of a 249-nucleotide stretch in the most variable part of the GP gene showed no genetic differences between isolates recovered from nine patients (five of whom survived) who were sampled during the 1995 Kikwit outbreak in Zaire (DRC) [45].

In light of these results, and in order to understand how great apes are infected, we amplified and systematically sequenced the coding part of the GP gene (the most variable gene of the EBOV genome) in samples from all gorilla and chimpanzee carcasses. We found a distinct viral sequence in each carcass [19], even in carcasses belonging to the same species (gorilla or chimpanzee) that had been discovered at the same time and only a few hundred meters apart (Leroy and Wittmann, personal data). As we had previously shown that a given outbreak strain undergoes no genetic variations, even after several human passages, these results argued against intraspecies transmission. On the contrary, the observed genetic diversity suggests that great ape infection results from simultaneous but independent transmission events from the reservoir species [19]. In this scenario the sequence variations probably result from viral adaptation to the natural host, which likely consists of several subspecies or genetically distinct groups. Thus, Ebola outbreaks in great apes appear to result not from the propagation of a single outbreak from one individual to another, but rather from massive simultaneous infection by the animal reservoir in particular environmental conditions (outbreaks always occur at the same times of the year, during the transitional periods between the dry and rainy seasons). Human infection occurs secondarily, and is generally linked to handling of infected animal corpses. Unfortunately, the precise environmental conditions required for EBOV to emerge from its reservoir are unknown, and the reservoir species remain(s) to be identified.
5. The reservoir species: 30 years of fruitless research?

The reservoirs (natural hosts) of Ebola virus and Marburg virus remain a mystery. Since the first recorded human outbreak in 1976, several laboratory and field studies have been conducted to identify the animal(s)—vertebrate or invertebrate—that can harbor the virus asymptomatically.
5.1. Wild animal capture studies

The first field study dates back to the Yambuku outbreak in 1976 in DRC (Table 1). An attempt was made to infect EBOV-permissive cell lines with samples of arthropods captured in and near patients' homes. The arthropods were pooled and crushed, and the resulting suspension was used to inoculate monkey kidney epithelial cells (Vero cells). Vero cells were also inoculated with centrifuged serum prepared from whole-blood samples of vertebrates captured near the homes and villages [10]. No viruses were isolated, despite the capture of 818 bedbugs, 1500 mosquitoes, 10 domestic pigs, one cow, seven bats, 123 rodents, eight squirrels, six Cercopithecus monkeys, and three small antelopes. A similar study of samples from 499 vertebrates obtained at the time of the 1976 outbreak in Sudan also gave negative results [46].



After the isolated case of E. Zaire infection in Tandala, DRC, in 1977 [11], intensive investigations were undertaken in 1979 in a very large northern region of DRC, including Tandala and Yambuku, which are about 300 km apart ( Table 1). This study, conducted between June and August 1979, during the dry season, focused on two regions: the first centered on Yambuku and covered an area of 2800 km2 with about 50,000 inhabitants, while the second, of roughly the same size and with 80,000 inhabitants, centered on Tandala [47]. The animals captured in this study comprised 267 primates, 463 bats, 661 rodents, 173 other mammals, 67 birds, and 33 reptiles and amphibians. Once again, no viruses were isolated.

Two other field studies were performed in 1995 near Kikwit, immediately after the outbreak (Table 1). A total of 2814 vertebrates [48] and 27,843 arthropods [49] were captured during respective periods of 3 and 6 months after the end of the outbreak. Viral isolation was attempted from both categories of animals, and vertebrates were also tested for E. Zaire-specific IgG. No positive IgG reactions were obtained, and no viruses were isolated on Vero cells. The vertebrates included 1759 rodents, 539 bats, 114 insectivores, 184 birds, and 127 reptiles and amphibians. The arthropods included 15,118 mosquitoes, 124 blood-sucking flies, 6538 bedbugs, 144 fleas, 103 lice, and 5816 ticks.

In Tai Forest, Ivory Coast, 1642 vertebrates (652 bats, 283 rodents, 398 insectivores, 27 monkeys and 282 birds) were captured and autopsied between 1996 and 1997 [50]. Organs were analyzed with the same methods as those described above. Except for a colobe bai monkey (red colobus, Colobus badius) that was seropositive for EBOV, no specific IgG reactions were detected and no viruses were isolated on cell lines ( Table 1).

Finally, 242 vertebrates (24 bats, 163 rodents and 56 insectivores) were captured in CAR in 1998 [51] (Table 1). Small EBOV-specific genetic sequences were amplified from organs of six mice (Mus setulosus and Praomys sp) and a shrew (Sylvisorex ollula). However, although these results constitute the only biological evidence that EBOV may be present in healthy animals, no firm conclusions as to the EBOV reservoir status of these animals can be drawn, given the lack of specific serologic responses, the lack of nucleotide specificities in the amplified viral sequences, the failure of virus isolation, and the non-reproducible nature of the results.

Bawss1: Very immature behaviour from the mods for the choice of the thread's title. The thinly veiled gloat that is the sense behind this thread is the reason why many people will be wondering why success eludes them despite their apparent efforts.

BadBoy25: I am white with blonde hair and blue eyes . what do you think about that?

darkman200:

what can i say? you can't even spell prostitute right. Ignoramus!

bushdoc9919:

From the research paper...The natural history of Ebola virus in Africa



As for Ebola being a bioweapon, it obviously is a poor one. In 1918, a strain of the Influenza virus killed 50 million people worldwide. Ebola has not even killed up to 100000 people since 1976.

And as Uganda shows....Ebola can be easily curtailed...

The outbreaks in these countries are bad currently, but for the future, we can look at Uganda as a model. The first outbreak in that country, beginning in 2000, resulted in 425 cases and 224 deaths. The second outbreak in 2008 resulted in 149 cases and 37 deaths. In 2011, they had a single case with no secondary spread. In 2012, 11 cases and 4 deaths. 2012, 6 cases and 3 deaths. It’s probably impossible to stop Ebola from spilling over into the human population, but Uganda has done a great job responding. They are able to do early detection of suspected cases in their biosafety level 4 lab in Gulu. They alert local authorities if something is suspected, then send a task force to assist with containment. They communicate effectively with the public about what they can do, and how effective treatment in hospitals can lower the mortality rate. They work with community leaders when a quarantine needs to be put in place. These things can all be employed in West Africa as well, but it takes time and a lot of commitment to get such networks up and running. We need this cooperation as much as we need PPE and even more than we need “secret serums,” because it is only with prevention of new cases that this epidemic will finally die out.

RaptorX: Another American butt licker, let me educate you. Do you know that Americans from Tulane university and Fort detrick army bio warfare center were conducting bio warfare research in Sierra leone right b4 this outbreak? Even whites will tell you they believe this is a bio warfare research gone wrong by the US, but dumb Africans still believe America love them. Go listen to minister Loius Farakhan call ebola a race specific bio warfare virus targetting Africans, you negroes are dumb beyond belief.