Am yet to hear any news from the health sector in nigeria regarding the possible cures for Ebola. It is understandable that we don't have any facility to precede research but our normal pharmacognsy measures can be promising. The normal phytochemical prediction we do in our universities can be a stepping stone for the cure of ebola. Most nigerian university laboratories don't have an electron microscopes to view a virus to start with, I studied biochemistry and for ones I didn't see an electron microscope. Let's start with the normal phytochemicals extraction from various plant parts, maybe we could possibly get something meaning.

customized13: Am yet to hear any news from the health sector in nigeria regarding the possible cures for Ebola. It is understandable that we don't have any facility to precede research but our normal pharmacognsy measures can be promising. The normal phytochemical prediction we do in our universities can be a stepping stone for the cure of ebola. Most nigerian university laboratories don't have an electron microscopes to view a virus to start with, I studied biochemistry and for ones I didn't see an electron microscope. Let's start with the normal phytochemicals extraction from various plant parts, maybe we could possibly get something meaning.

Good question...and the problem is MONEY.

For example....to study viruses...you need a high quality facility with allsorts of safeguards....and building such a facility would cost billions of dollars.

Then there is drug research. You mentioned phytochemicals extraction? Well, that is step 1. Step 2 would involve invitro testing.Step 3 would involve animal testing. Step 4 would involve human testing....phase 1-4. All these take time,money and facilities.

The issue is funding...and even with zero corruption.....it may take a very high amount of money just to set up a secure facility for viral research. And the running costs of such a center may he huge. (CDC Atlanta USA....which is a center for research for the study of viral, bacterial and other diseases....has a[url=http://www.cdc.gov/fmo/topic/Budget%20Information/appropriations_budget_form_pdf/FY2014_Budget_Request_Summary.pdf] budget of $6.6bn..[/url]...1073bn naira)

That is why funding for education and science has to go up.