WHO declares Nigeria, Senegal free of disease this week

Sex could keep the Ebola epidemic alive even after the World Health Organization (WHO)
declares an area free of the disease, one of the discoverers of the deadly virus said
yesterday.The WHO is hoping to announce later this week that Nigeria and Senegal are free
of Ebola after 42 days with no infections, the standard period for declaring an outbreak over,
twice the maximum 21-day incubation period of the virus.

However, it appears the disease can last much longer in semen. “In a convalescent male, the
virus can persist in semen for at least 70 days; one study suggests persistence for more than
90 days,” the WHO said in an information note on Monday.

“Certainly, the advice has to be for survivors to use a condom, to not have unprotected sex,
for 90 days,” said Peter Piot, a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine and a discoverer of Ebola in 1976.

“If we would apply the rule for double the time, that would be 180 days, six months. I think it
(90 days) is probably a compromise, for practicality,” he told a news conference in Geneva.
Ebola spreads via bodily fluids such as blood and saliva, but it has also been detected in
breast milk and urine, as well as semen, the WHO said. The whole live virus has never been
isolated from sweat, however.

More than 3,400 people are already known to have died in the world’s worst Ebola outbreak
on record, the vast majority of them in three West African countries: Guinea, Liberia and
Sierra Leone.

Source: sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=85139

Well so I was rightly informed. But hope they'll heed to the advise.


Spotting since 1914. 2-0

Before nko?

Even before ebola outbreak, condom is been used. So what's d essense?

The good times are here. Hopefully we get to make giant strides in good governance too and Nigeria will be a role model to other developing nations. God bless Motherland...

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Respectnelson:

“Certainly, the advice has to be for survivors to use a condom, to not have unprotected sex,
for 90 days,” said Peter Piot, a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine and a discoverer of Ebola in 1976.
Source: sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=85139

Ok, u mean like this one?

All i knw is that Nigeria has defeated it period...The int'l communities would always want to have the last say in world related matters,they still ain't happy with Nigeria,Africa still stands as the most blessed.

B4 kon

Is that what it has gotten to?

It's becoming eerie and damn frightening ooo

Thought the scourge had long been eliminated

And I come go do raw one yesterday

Hmm, guess we in naija aren't affected

Nawa oooo

If I have an Ebola-positive girlfriend, believe me: I'll forget what sex is not to talk of using condom

No more konji be dat?

So tey some people typed "H" "ff" to buy land

gold circle,market go better

Its better they abstain for a period of time. condom is not 100% safe.

Una don hear ladies.if he cant use condom den he should zip up.Remember prevention is better than cure

Certainly, the advice has to be for survivors to use a condom, to not have unprotected sex,
for 90 days

If this will reduce the outbreak, then condom production must be increase and its must be subsidize

Even with condom shey their partner go gree doam
Ebola ma ni

No unprotected sex for 90 days for ebola survivors. This is serious!

See purnisment

I strongly believe everything wil be over one day...

Ok

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Girls please o.... Don't allow any guy to climb ontop of you without a condom... Please.

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