The United States of America, yesterday, dashed the hope of an early cure for Ebola Virus victims in Nigeria when it refused to share the trial drug with Nigeria. US President Barak Obama says it would be premature to share the experimental drug with Africa.

The Federal Government had earlier reached out to the United States Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, in Atlanta, to request for the drug for treatment of EVD affected persons in Nigeria, but President Obama turned down the request, saying it would be far more beneficial to focus on prevention instead.
Nigeria recorded its first Ebola Virus disease fatality on Tuesday when one of the nurses who was one of the primary contacts of the American-Liberian, Patrick Sawyer, passed on. The doctor who treated Sawyer, who died in the country after flying into Lagos, is now ill with Ebola and six other primary contacts are currently ill with the disease in a Lagos hospital where they are quarantined.

Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu and Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku had disclosed on Wednesday after the Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja that the Federal Government was awaiting the response of the request it made to the CDC on Tuesday.

Addressing the 50 African leaders at the US-African Summit in Washington, President Obama stated that it is “premature” to send an experimental medicine for the treatment of Ebola to West Africa, as he lacked enough information to approve the drug that was already being used on two American aid workers whose conditions were said to have improved by varying degrees.

“We’ve got to let the science guide us and I don’t think all the information is in on whether this drug is helpful. The Ebola virus, both currently and in the past, is controllable if you have a strong public health infrastructure in place.

“The countries affected are the first to admit that what’s happened here is the public health systems have been overwhelmed. They weren’t able to identify and then isolate cases quickly enough.

“As a consequence, it spread more rapidly than has been typical with the periodic Ebola outbreaks that occurred previously,” he remarked.

Palliative

As a palliative, President Obama announced plans by the US to spend $110 million annually, for three to five years, totall ing $330-$550 million, to help African nations develop rapid reaction peacekeeping forces.

The Ebola virus causes viral hemorrhagic fever, which refers to a group of viruses that affect multiple organ systems in the body and are often accompanied by bleeding.

The experimental medicine is a three-mouse monoclonal antibody, meaning that mice were exposed to fragments of the Ebola virus and then the antibodies generated within the mice’s blood were harvested to create the medicine. It works by preventing the virus from entering and infecting new cells.

Developed by a San Diego Company, Mapp Biopharmaceutical, the experimental serum had never been tried before on human beings but had shown promise in small experiments with monkeys. Company documents show that four monkeys infected with Ebola survived after being given the therapy within 24 hours after infection.

In the monkeys, the experimental serum had been given within 48 hours of infection. Two of four other monkeys that started therapy within 48 hours after infection also survived. One monkey that was not treated died within five days of exposure to the virus.


Source:Nigeria recorded its first Ebola Virus disease fatality on Tuesday when one of the nurses who was one of the primary contacts of the American-Liberian, Patrick Sawyer, passed on. The doctor who treated Sawyer, who died in the country after flying into Lagos, is now ill with Ebola and six other primary contacts are currently ill with the disease in a Lagos hospital where they are quarantined.

Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu and Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku had disclosed on Wednesday after the Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja that the Federal Government was awaiting the response of the request it made to the CDC on Tuesday.

Addressing the 50 African leaders at the US-African Summit in Washington, President Obama stated that it is “premature” to send an experimental medicine for the treatment of Ebola to West Africa, as he lacked enough information to approve the drug that was already being used on two American aid workers whose conditions were said to have improved by varying degrees.

“We’ve got to let the science guide us and I don’t think all the information is in on whether this drug is helpful. The Ebola virus, both currently and in the past, is controllable if you have a strong public health infrastructure in place.

“The countries affected are the first to admit that what’s happened here is the public health systems have been overwhelmed. They weren’t able to identify and then isolate cases quickly enough.

“As a consequence, it spread more rapidly than has been typical with the periodic Ebola outbreaks that occurred previously,” he remarked.

Palliative

As a palliative, President Obama announced plans by the US to spend $110 million annually, for three to five years, totall ing $330-$550 million, to help African nations develop rapid reaction peacekeeping forces.

The Ebola virus causes viral hemorrhagic fever, which refers to a group of viruses that affect multiple organ systems in the body and are often accompanied by bleeding.

The experimental medicine is a three-mouse monoclonal antibody, meaning that mice were exposed to fragments of the Ebola virus and then the antibodies generated within the mice’s blood were harvested to create the medicine. It works by preventing the virus from entering and infecting new cells.

Developed by a San Diego Company, Mapp Biopharmaceutical, the experimental serum had never been tried before on human beings but had shown promise in small experiments with monkeys. Company documents show that four monkeys infected with Ebola survived after being given the therapy within 24 hours after infection.

In the monkeys, the experimental serum had been given within 48 hours of infection. Two of four other monkeys that started therapy within 48 hours after infection also survived. One monkey that was not treated died within five days of exposure to the virus.

Source:vanguardngr.com

I think a homegrown research should be embarked upon rather than wait to be spoon-fed by the Americans.
Our Medical professionals should see this as a challenge and raise their game,now is the time to earn the respect u have always craved for,enough of this mediocrity pls.

Ain't they Humans like us? Can't we, too, organize medical experts to experiment on any possible cure? Must we always seek help and trouble the world?

It shows how useless this country is.

Furck the US btw!

The last concluded ECOWAS summit,Jonathan dashed 3million dollars to the affected nations (not too sure of d figure). Why can't he raise funds and pay pharmaceutical company to find a cure though I know this may not be easy. Just saying.

redcap: I think a homegrown research should be embarked upon rather than wait to be spoon-fed by the Americans.
Our Medical professionals should see this as a challenge and raise their game,now is the time to earn the respect u have always craved for,enough of this mediocrity pls.

my brother, if this nation had goMY BROTHER,if this nation had gone for a proactive and preventive measures ever since this mess started,we wouldnt have bin talking about this now,in a country where every thing is politicised,what do u expect?all d herbs that where used to develop hiv drugs where all gotten from africa, but that same africa was busy sleepin when d white man came to his back yard to steal the remedy.this ebola thing has binwit africa for years what did she do about it?

Reiyvinn: Ain't they Humans like us? Can't we, too, organize medical experts to experiment on any possible cure? Must we always seek help and trouble the world?
It shows how useless this country is.
Furck the US btw!

what are u saying?

Now it's time to start our own Ebola experiment and research too because I dont think US is ready to give us any drug to cure Ebola....... when our leaders suppose to be spending money on health sector they were busy embezzling money so now u see the result US research team that discovered the cure are human being like us so we should go and start our own research too and stop wasting time because people are dying

this americans are mad
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Trado-medical should come to the rescue.

Let us continue to sign this petition, it may change their mind

Click on the link to add your signature:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/release-experimental-drug-zmapp-africa/9bYrqL09

Are there no medical professionals in Nigeria?

Africa and mediocrity.

These are the same people that claim that "quack" Emeagwali is a genius. Extremely laughable.

Why won't they? This should serve as a wake up call for Africa. High time we held our leaders accountable,imagine,any little thing,we run to the whites for solution,why can't we just be independent for once.if the whites call us monkeys,we will be shouting "racism",with the kind of our mentality,being called a monkey is an understatement..our leaders are a curse to Africa...

The earlier Nigerians begin to hav a structure for health facilities in place d beta for d country. The US president said ' the Ebola virus, both currently and in the past, is controllable if you have a strong public health infrastructure in place.' So its high time we begin to face d consequences of our corrupt practices.

There are opthamologists everywhere. Goan patronize one ASAP!

hotswagg12: what are u saying?

Why are you guys begging the US? What about the bitter kola and salt? What about your men of god? Don't they have solutions to Ebola?

Aromas:
what are you typing

Lol

We need to become self reliant. At the end of the day the Americans want us ded.

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Reiyvinn: Ain't they Humans like us? Can't we, too, organize medical experts to experiment on any possible cure? Must we always seek help and trouble the world?

It shows how useless this country is.

Furck the US btw!

well FUNK the US or not... they reserve the right to still hold on to the experimental drugs for Ebola,


but MY 2 cents is that we will be the Most Furious ones if the Experimental Drugs is given to us and it does not do what its supposed to do in the patients with the Virus.

So let still Continue to Pray for our Great nation.

God Bless Nigeria.

Where are our herbalists when we need them the most...
FG should finance our local herbalists for a research..
The herbs can fight Ebola, our forefathers made things happen those days

If all you people that go to Babalawo, Cultic High Priest and Pastors for healing, power money and wealth would invest that same money into funding knowledge, science and other worthy achievements we would not have to beg beg every time.
Stop blaming the Government!
Leaders are a reflection of the People they lead.

BTW
If the experimental drug has side effects now Americans will be accused of experimenting on Africans.

Obama wants africa's government to legalize abortion and same sex marriage before he releases the drug.... .

Ebola, a triggered virus by the whites just to benefit themselves. Am not suprised abt the trial drug refusal.

Reiyvinn: Ain't they Humans like us? Can't we, too, organize medical experts to experiment on any possible cure? Must we always seek help and trouble the world?

It shows how useless this country is.

Furck the US btw!

One of our Profs came up with bitter kola as a possible cure, but our FG was so quick to refute its effectiveness rather than encourage more research on it.

Obama is right after all, it's still on the tentative stage n thus, should not be highly reliable.

Mu he he he he he he

Really? Did y'all niggas think for one moment that US was ever gon give you that shyt?

Because of why naw? Maka why?

You should know that your evil has overflown and una shyt don full bucket. US is doing what they call, "TREATING YOUR COLLECTIVE FVCK UP"

Anyway have you tried hot salt water and 2 spoons of egusi?

Ordinarily one would have thought that an average African person would be wary of their long time slave master, but I guess I was wrong because our gullible Pro-Western leaders as always they have their head stuck in the asss of the West always waiting to be spoon-fed by the very people that has ensured that they remain at the bottom of the totem pole through policies,proxy wars and puppet governments all over Africa which was rife immediately after the end of colonization,and which has ushered in Neo-colonization that exists till this very moment and bites harder than colonization.

All these while this Ebola has existed, no African country has taken it upon themselves to find a lasting solution and Nigeria being a major culprit in this show of shame is even the one begging for drugs that they could just get from their backyard amidst all the abundant rain forest with abundant life saving plants it posseses yet we shamelessly beg for everything.......Abi dem curse us?


Sometimes one can help it but wishes for drastic changes or just close your eyes and cease to exist amidst these tales of woes and woes to come.

We only owe ourselves one thing as Individuals................Do not give birth to children you cannot educate because, if a larger population of the people remains uneducated ,they'll always remain at the mercy of the clueless and worthless leadership with their masters in the West dictating the tune.

Africans ,I pity our people.

Shebi Tuberculosis Josh and Paator Etuah Ighodalo said they have the cure naw?

Wtf are they waiting for again naw