Dannyxy: you are dull, what is wrong in testing the drugs?, if it works, good, if it doesn't, we move on.
who do you think will be credited if it works?, is it the creator or the person that suggested that it should be used?, common, answer, let me see how smart you are?, or are you just a child ranting behind the computer?

pacretus:
am sorry to say "i dont believe wat u said.pls take it back.nd try to b reasonable.go through the writte up again nd make a better assumption.tnks

ceejayluv:
Yes, same way Nigerians used themselves en masse as lab rats with saline solution. some have perished. Zmapp is a product of painstaking research targeted at ebola... Nano silver is a generic antiseptic.

ritababe: What american can do, african can do it better,

i pray this nano silver work so that the US will be put to shame

MissMeiya:

Because it's not a fùcking drug. It's not fúcking new. And it has been "tested" on every disease imaginable. Do you know how to use Google?

Nairaland is such an embarrassment to Nigeria.

The stúpidity on here is driving me crazy. I need to take another break.

Frankenstein: Shut your festering gob! Igbos are not Jews and will never be. Igbos are Igbos.
Inferiority complex, that's what you're suffering from. Don't tag other Igbos in your Semitic obsession and fantasy.

vislabraye:

You don't know wherev U come from !!

donnypool:

nah zmapp was accepted because it is an american lab product. remember c-section? where it was first practiced, how its was criticized and who is doing it mostly now?

ceejayluv:

"The rate has risen to 46% in China and
to levels of 25% and above in many
Asian, European and Latin American
countries.[6] The rate has increased in
the United States, to 33% of all births
in 2012, up from 21% in 1996. [4]
Across Europe, there are differences
between countries: in Italy the
Caesarean section rate is 40%, while
in the Nordic countries it is 14%"(wikipedia)

Well, that's not the issue. Zmapp and tkm ebola have shown results in the lab with detailed experimental procedures , results and patents. Nano silver is as good as the salt and kola therapy.

onitshaigbo:

You're ignorant. Igbos are and will always been Jews. Not inferiority or superiority complex, just facts. We are not Africans but instead came from the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.

ritababe: What american can do, african can do it better,

i pray this nano silver work so that the US will be put to shame

donnypool:

well i'm not saying am right rather am i saying you are wrong. people on nairaland knows too much, but most of them are jobless. If you guys think our minister of health is senseless, then everyone nigeria is senseless. People are out there volunteering to work with ebola patients, but the ones on here are only good in online argument. i didn't say you are among tho.

Everyone think the minister of health is an illiterate and will just start vaccinating people with the drug. Lets leave those people in authority to do their job, and lets do our part in creating businesses, awareness and support for government officials.

onitshaigbo:

You're ignorant. Igbos are and will always been Jews. Not inferiority or superiority complex, just facts. We are not Africans but instead came from the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.

mickyarams:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnQVUf775VE



Right now in West Africa the worst Ebola outbreak in history is in full swing and is jumping borders at an alarming rate. Already it has spread to four countries, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and now Nigeria. This latest jump into Nigeria is particularly serious since the infected individual carried the virus by plane to Lagos Nigeria, a city with a population of over 21 million. Doctors without borders has referred to the outbreak as "out of control".

To make matters worse, there is something very, very important that the corporate media and public health officials are not telling you regarding this crisis.

You'll notice if you read virtually any mainstream article on the topic that they make a point of insisting that Ebola is only transferred by physical contact with bodily fluids. This is not true, at all.

A study conducted in 2012 showed that Ebola was able to travel between pigs and monkeys that were in separate cages and were never placed in direct contact.

Though the method of transmission in the study was not officially determined, one of the scientists involved, Dr. Gary Kobinger, from the National Microbiology Laboratory at the Public Health Agency of Canada, told BBC News that he believed that the infection was spread through large droplets that were suspended in the air.
"What we suspect is happening is large droplets; they can stay in the air, but not long; they don't go far," he explained. "But they can be absorbed in the airway, and this is how the infection starts, and this is what we think, because we saw a lot of evidence in the lungs of the non-human primates that the virus got in that way."

Translation: Ebola IS an airborne virus.

UPDATE: Someone pointed out that in medical terms, if the virus is transferred through tiny droplets in the air this would technically not be called an "airborne virus". Airborne, in medical terms would mean that the virus has the ability to stay alive without a liquid carrier. On one hand this is a question of semantics, and the point is well taken, but keep in mind that the study did not officially determine how the virus traveled through the air, it merely established that it does travel through the air. Doctor Kobinger's hypothesis regarding droplets of liquid is just that, a hypothesis. For the average person however what needs to be understood is very simple: if you are in a room with someone infected with Ebola, you are not safe, even if you never touch them or their bodily fluids, and this is not what you are being told by the mainstream media. Essentially I am using the word "airborne" as a layman term (which kind of makes sense, since I am a layman in this field).

Now I'm not going to speculate as to whether these so called "journalist" and public health agencies who keep repeating the official line regarding the means of transmission are lying, or are just participating in some massive display of synchronized incompetence, but what I will say, is that this shoddy reporting is most likely getting people killed right now, and may in fact put all of humanity in danger.

How so?

By convincing people that the virus cannot travel through air, important precautions that could reduce the spread of the virus are not being taken. For example the other passengers on the plane that traveled to Lagos, Nigeria were not quarantined.

[UPDATE August 6th]: According to the AP and the BBC, Patrick Sawyer, the Ebola infected man who traveled to Lagos Nigeria by plane, passed the disease on to eight health workers before being properly isolated.

Nigerian health authorities acknowledged Tuesday that they did not immediately quarantine a sick airline passenger who later died of Ebola, announcing that eight health workers who had direct contact with him were now in isolation with symptoms of the disease.

In spite of the seriousness of this disease, and in spite of the fact the fact that the BBC itself covered a study in 2012 that demonstrated that Ebola can spread through the air, no one in the corporate media has budged from the official line regarding transmission.

The AP's spin on it:
Experts say people infected with Ebola can spread the disease only through their bodily fluids and after they show symptoms.

From CNN:
Ebola spreads through contact with organs and bodily fluids such as blood, saliva, urine and other secretions of infected people.

And from the BBC itself in their article describing the second confirmed case in Nigeria:
The virus spreads by contact with infected blood and bodily fluids - and touching the body of someone who has died of Ebola is particularly dangerous.

To put this into context, Ebola kills between 50% and 90% of its victims, so the stakes are very, very high here.

NOTE: We have reported on the fact that Ebola can spread through the air in three separate articles since March of 2014, here, here and here, however the corporate media has continued to misrepresent the vectors of transmission.

This particular strain of Ebola is not Ebola Zaire. This is a new strain, and it may in fact be more dangerous than the Zaire variety. Not because of any difference in the symptoms (the symptoms are identical), but because this new virus seems to be harder to contain. Whether this is due to some characteristic of the virus itself or merely dumb luck is uncertain at this time, but the rate at which this outbreak has extended its range is unprecedented.

According to the CDC this virus is genetically 97% similar to the Zaire strain. However if you are interested in this virus' phylogenetic relationship (genetic lineage) to the Zaire strain you should look read "Phylogenetic Analysis of Guinea 2014 EBOV Ebolavirus Outbreak" on plos.org.

Another study by the New England Journal of medicine (this was the one referenced by the CDC) specifically names the parts of the genetic code which differ:

The three sequences, each 18,959 nucleotides in length, were identical with the exception of a few polymorphisms at positions 2124 (G→A, synonymous), 2185 (A→G, NP552 glycine→glutamic acid), 2931 (A→G, synonymous), 4340 (C→T, synonymous), 6909 (A→T, sGP291 arginine→tryptophan), and 9923 (T→C, synonymous).

Note that there doesn't yet seem to be a consensus as to what this new strain is called. One study referred to it as "Guinean EBOV", another as "Guinea 2014 EBOV Ebolavirus" and others are still referring to it as Zaire. Given that we can specifically name the points where the virus has mutated, using the old name is misleading.

Right now the question on everyone's minds is whether this virus will spread outside of Africa. Considering the fact that Ebola has a three week incubation period, can travel through the air, and has already hitchhiked onto an international flight, this is a very real possibility. There are some that are downplaying the probability of this outcome, and to be honest, I hope that they are right, but the simple fact of the matter is that these people are basing their assessment on the faulty premise that Ebola is not an airborne virus.

Now the first thing you might be feeling when looking at this situation is a sense of fear and helplessness, and while that's a perfectly normal reaction it's really not helpful. Instead we should be thinking in terms of practical steps we can take to influence the outcome.

One thing we can all do is to start confronting journalists and public officials who keep making false statements regarding the way Ebola spreads. Use the links to the original study, the BBC report from 2012 and this video to put them in their place.

We also need to confront the fact that there isn't a full out, coordinated, international effort to contain this. This is being treated like a sideshow but it has the very real potential to become a main event.

The doctors on the ground in West Africa don't have enough staff or resources to deal with this situation. It is absolutely inexcusable for the U.S. and the E.U. to be investing billions of tax payer dollars into their little power games in Ukraine and Syria (which are both in the process of escalating right now by the way) while Ebola is getting a foothold in Africa. Every available resource should be shifted to West Africa in order to contain and extinguish this epidemic right now.



Why is this random air travel more dangerous?

Because if it gets in when people aren't looking, it can spread before containment measures are put into place.

P.S. If you want to learn more about Ebola I highly recommend that you read "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston.


 http://scgnews.com/ebola-what-youre-not-being-told
  

SirShymex: Where's PAGAN9JA?

Since the cure for Ebola has been elusive and the yanks have refused to give naij zmapp...I think Nigerians need go to the gods of Africa for a drug.

PAGAN9JA, have the gods got cure for ebola?

sexzskil: Nigerian government and Health Ministry lying to the masses since Mesolithic age

onitshaigbo:

No, God loves the Igbos (Jews), the rest of you Nigerians are just gentiles, who are created to serve the Nation Of Israel (Igbos).

preacherz: By now Nano Silver must have been given to the 6 Ebola patients...........any news on their health stateanybody?

VantagePoint:
Don't get your knickers tied up in a twist..
That's a very good point you raised there, but you should have directed this to pharmacists, laboratory scientists instead of judt doctors. Most doctors are involved in CLINICAL work, not RESEARCH. But your bias against doctors won't let you see that.

donroxy: Where are all the Professor of microbiology , Pharmacists and medical experts !!
This is the time we need them abi na only strike dem sabi ?