No time to check time

my elder sis just called me now telling me to boil water and put salt inside.Telling me wake the whole house to take our bath with it . Was so scared I almost jumped out of my skin :/

Na now my neighbour con wake me for d same things here.
Reporting from Lagos

i no dey like dis kind play. see this sleep wey dey sweet nw. which kind news be dis naaa. but i will still bathe shaaa ;Di no dey like dis kind play. see this sleep wey dey sweet nw. which kind news be dis naaa. but i will still bathe shaaa

The news is all over Ebonyi state. i have recieved scores of call before 4am all about bathing salt water this morning and no bathing for the rest of the day.

ITS ALMOST SIX O'CLOCK AND I CANT START BOILING THE WATER NOW, OH! MY GOD, WHAT DO I DO?

PLEASE EVERYBODY SHOULD RELAX, DON'T BOTHER TAKING YOUR BATH WITH SALT AND HOT WATER BEFORE 6AM.------IT'S A BLOODY RUMOR

joagboola: Ebola virus just enter jos agwan rukuba dis Morning pls dn ignore dis massage pass It on 2 all ur contact u are advice 2 add a lettle salt 2 ur water dis Morning 2 take ur bath got this arnd 2am hu could ave strt dis joke its 2 expensive

bia, did you see the virus entering rukuba? #take time o

got same news from this morning in Abuja.......there is god oooo

Its a scam obviously and network providers are involved in spreading these ridiculous rumors mtn and the likes, in liberia the most hit nation right now they have not deployed any such tactics all they've done is quarantine the infected and avoid contact..infact salts have been known to increase viral adsorption to surfaces so..clomiphene has improved survival in infected animals so if your already infected ask your caregiver for this there's no cure and mortality is 50%-you can tell its a rumor just ask those that informed you how they got the info its through the elderly they using to spread this

i said it. the same people that run to pastor are the same people that can fall inside native doctor trap. solution seekers

Cheks01: Js received a cal too 4rm Enugu.

enugu female..person how did the person get info

Everyone around here is already awake, bathing with salt and hot water, some are already beatig their kids...

My mum, my girl and lots of friends jst dey call me naaaa.

say na Salt and Hot water bathing , make i no use soap.
Chai, GOD have mercy ooo. Dis ebola is so scary.

Reporting from awka, Udoka housing estate.

My mum just woke me up oooo, when I was jst relaxing to sleep after morning prayers . Sha Sha, apparently, this salt water na in go save us....SMH... I rly find it funny... reporting from Abuja

manza88: My mum just woke me up oooo, when I was jst relaxing to sleep after morning prayers . Sha Sha, apparently, this salt water na in go save us....SMH... I rly find it funny... reporting from Abuja

hey Manza how did your mum find out let's trace this thing man..just look everyone is saying someone told them who told that someone yeah?

optimism91:
Mine too, my landlord had to wake up every tenants just to pass the info to us. But he said we have to do it before 12a.m, without any reason. I was like, " salt....water....bathe" if it where to be a preventive measure, what happens to those who uses public transport? Would one also trake the whole day just to avoid body contacts. Another business for bitter cola and salt sellers. May God give us wisdom and see us through in Jesus name.

face me I face U compound? tomorrow you start claiming Lekki

If it is not a telecom giant dat started this hoax, den it must be a major dealer in salt.

This one is very dangerous because people now seem to have abandoned both health and spiritual orientation. My people perish for lack of knowledge.

Ignorance is indeed very expensive.

My landlord here in ph just woke me in a frenzy with this same bullspit....gosh!!! Abeg lemme know when a credible organisation like WHO or NMA put out a memo to this effect, till then I'd be living my life like it's golden...peace out

chokovirus:

bia, did you see the virus entering rukuba? #take time o

na wetin dem call tel mi n I jst copied n paste d text message I got no b mio strt am datna y I calld it expensive joke

Superstition,they just disrupted my sound sleep

It won't cost me anythn oo so I took a salt
solution bath and even drank some. Am going bck
to bed.

My mum called me around 5am she even add say make i drink the salt water sef.

So this thing has gone viral like this? I've been getting same since early morning too! The calls and msgs woke me up and am like what's happening? No wonder I saw my neighbour with a bag of salt yesterday actually wondered what he wants to do with all that salt God I hate not knowing what to do in times of distress please guide and enlighten me/us in Jesus name amen.

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I ve recieved more than 20 calls this morning concerning this unscientific approach to ebola. Just wonder who started this,
Wetin dey pain me be say i had to pay for these calls unto roaming things

Nawa oo# na salt nd water msgs wake me up dis early momo ooo# to me i tink those bringing up dis tins should actually sit nd tink wit health organisations nd show deir creativity for solving shits#lwkmd ;DNawa oo# na salt nd water msgs wake me up dis early momo ooo# to me i tink those bringing up dis tins should actually sit nd tink wit health organisations nd show deir creativity for solving shits#lwkmd

tayormi: Just got a call from my friend too ...... disturbed d akara and akamu I was eating in my dream

lol

Ebola Virus UpDate; Ebola In Enugu State, Doctors Strike, Spain Ebola Scare and The Zmapp Drug
Posted on August 7, 2014 by hotnewsng

Public doctors in Nigeria today August 7th called off their 5-week old strike to help with the fight against the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Nigeria.

In a statement issued by the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, the doctors listed the incursion of Ebola into Nigeria as a main reason for suspending the strike.

Just yesterday, the Lagos state government through the Commissioner for Health, Dr Idris Jide, had appealed to striking doctors to call of their strike so as to help contain the spread of the virus.

There are also rumours of Ebola Virus in Enugu State Nigeria on Thursday.

An Ebola victim was admitted into University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital in Ituku Ozalla Enugu on Wednesday.

An Assistant Chief Nursing Officer working in UNTH disclosed to Hot News in anonymity that the alleged patient nursed the late Liberian Doctor.

She said the patient Nurse refused to submit herself to be quarantine by authorities in Lagos and came down East of Nigeria attending a wedding ceremony at Zodiac Hotel Enugu where she might have spread the virus.

UNTH Medical Staff are trying to move the victim to UNTH old site at Park lane where she will be secluded for treatment.

In Contrast, The Commissioner for Health, Dr. George Eze, told journalists in Enugu yesterday that though no case of the virus has been recorded, all measures had been put on ground to guard against the disease.

Eze said the clarification became necessary in order to douse tension, noting that his office has been inundated with questions from the people of the state on the Ebola virus.
Up till now, we have not established any Ebola case in Enugu State; for now it is a threat across the country, but we are guarding against it.

We want to let you know that we have the manpower, the muscle, and our specialists have put heads together to manage the situation.
The Governor Sullivan Chime, has always reiterated the need for a healthy State; that is why he has empowered the ministry down the line.
So, we are calling on our people not to panic but take the necessary precautions. Our best is to prepare ourselves to tackle this scourge if it comes. For any scourge that came in the past, it was contained. So, we believe that this one will be contained.

We have earlier started sensitisation in the media, but we feel that it is not enough; we are coming with bombardment that will not create panic among the members of the public, he added.
The commissioner further assured that health personnel in the state had been adequately trained and equipped to respond promptly when the need arises.

Africans seeking a drug to help contain the Ebola virus will have to wait months before a potentially life-saving experimental treatment used on two infected Americans is produced in even small amounts, officials said.

And there are no guarantees that the medication known as ZMapp would help curb the spread of the dreaded disease, which starts with a fever and body aches and sometimes progresses to serious bleeding. Supplies of the drug are limited, and it has never been tested for safety or effectiveness in humans.

The health minister of Nigeria, one of the four countries where Ebola has broken out, told a news conference in his country that he had asked the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about access to the drug. But a CDC spokesman said Wednesday there are virtually no doses available.

Some people in other affected countries questioned why the drug has not been offered to infected Africans.

Anthony Kamara, a 27-year-old man riding a bicycle in Freetown, Sierra Leone, said Americans are very selfish. They only care about the lives of themselves and no one else.

He referred to ZMapp as the miracle serum that Americans have refused to share with us to save African lives.

The lack of wider availability of the drug shows simply that white patients and black patients do not have the same value in the eyes of world medicine, said Nouridine Sow, a sociology professor at the Universal Institute of Guinea.

The outbreak first emerged in Guinea and spread to neighboring Sierra Leone and Liberia before reaching Nigeria. Almost 1,000 people have died since March.

Some health experts fear that debate over extremely limited supplies of the drug will distract from more proven practices identifying, isolating and aggressively treating the sick.

Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health said the drug manufacturer has told the U.S. government that it would take two to three months to produce just a modest amount.

We don’t even know if it works, he stressed.

President Barack Obama, who hosted an Africa summit this week, pledged to help nip as early as possible any additional outbreaks.

And then, during the course of that process, I think it’s entirely appropriate for us to see if there are additional drugs or medical treatments that can improve the survivability of what is a very deadly and obviously brutal disease, Obama said Wednesday.

Underscoring desperate attempts to stop the disease, troops in full combat gear deployed in the rain to block people traveling to Liberia’s capital from rural areas hit by Ebola. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf declared a national state of emergency, and officials said Thursday that no one with a fever would be allowed in or out of the country.

In Sierra Leone, military forces also deployed as part of Operation Octopus which officials said was aimed at preventing the unauthorized movement of Ebola-infected persons.

Liberia and Sierra Leone account for more than 60 percent of the deaths, according to the World Health Organization.

Liberian Information Minister Lewis Brown vowed that authorities would conduct stringent surveillance at the country’s international airport, where many flights have been cancelled because of Ebola.

We are facing a threat of the greatest proportion, Brown said. Absolutely no one will be allowed to enter or leave our country with temperature above normal.

The unprecedented measures came after a man sick with Ebola in Liberia boarded a flight and ended up in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, where a nurse who treated him is now dead from the disease and several other people are infected. The traveler also died.

Ebola is spread only through direct contact with the bodily fluids of people showing symptoms.

Experts warned that extreme measures risk driving patients and their families further underground.

Nothing replaces that sense of community trust. So if you come in with brute force, things might appear to be working, but it could be pushing people out where they can’t control the borders and the disease gets out, said Dr. David Heymann, professor at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Sirleaf justified the 90-day state of emergency, saying the outbreak requires extraordinary measures for the very survival of our state and for the protection of the lives of our people.

Ignorance, poverty, as well as entrenched religious and cultural practices continue to exacerbate the spread of the disease especially in the counties, Sirleaf said late Wednesday.

She warned that some civil liberties could be suspended. By Thursday, soldiers were already restricting movements on the roads to Monrovia, witnesses said. Some soldiers were deployed to the crossroads town of Klay, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) west of Monrovia in an effort to stop people from three Ebola-infected counties from coming closer to the capital.

The capital already has been hit by the virus, with bodies abandoned in the streets. Relatives are hiding feverish patients at home for fear if they are brought to isolation centers and don’t have Ebola, they will end up contracting it anyway.

National Health Workers Association President Joseph Tamba said the state of emergency is necessary. But he says people should have been given advance notice to buy food ahead of the movement restrictions.

In Sierra Leone, President Ernest Bai Koroma mandated that all Ebola victims must now be buried near where they died to minimize exposure while transporting highly contagious corpses.

A Spanish missionary infected by Ebola was in stable condition after being flown to Spain from Liberia, health officials in Madrid said. Miguel Pajares, 75, had been helping to treat people infected with Ebola and was one of three who tested positive at the San Jose de Monrovia Hospital in Liberia earlier this week.

Zimbabwe President Mugabe is considering withdrawing Zimbabwean soldiers, police and prison officers serving as U.N. peacekeepers in Liberia because of the Ebola outbreak, Zimbabwe’s state-run Herald newspaper reported. We must not expose ourselves unnecessarily, Mugabe was quoted as saying. Peacekeepers from dozens of countries were deployed in Liberia at the height of peacekeeping operations in a country that was riven by two civil wars. They are to remain until elections in 2017

tellmoon: Ignorance is a disease itself.

its not just ignorance. 90-98% of our nigerians are totally gullible. imagine!
that's why politicians play us like ball.

Haba Nigerians!
I have got calls in the early hours of the
morning...suddenly rumours flying around for
people to take their bath with salt in the water
and to drink some! Haba!!
They premise it on worms dying by coming in
contact with salt!
EBOLA IS A VIRUS AND NOT A WORM AND
DRINKING SALT WILL NOT AND CANNOT
PREVENT INFECTION!! WASH HANDS AFTER EVERY OUTING WITH SOAP AND WATER!! AVOID TOUCHING VERY SICK PEOPLE WITH YOUR BARE HANDS, IF POSSIBLE USE LATEX GLOVES FOR THE VERY SICK!!!
SPREAD BEST PRACTICES AND NOT FEAR!!!

It is funny, isn't it? Almost all the members of my family have called me to bath with saltened water like they were doctors or prophets.

Why should I obey them? It's quite simple!
1. I have nothing to lose by bathing with the solution.
2. If I complain of headache now, the first question they'll ask me is if I bathed with salt and water as they advised.

I fitn't laugh o...