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Nigeria To Receive Favipiravir Ebola Drug From Japan by drsolob2(m): 10:43am On Sep 02, 2014
Nigeria was set to receive the antiviral drug Favipiravir from Japan as a possible Ebola treatment, the Health Ministry said on Monday.

Favipiravir, developed by the Japanese pharmaceutical company Fujifilm Holdings Corp, was available for immediate delivery, Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said during an emergency meeting in the capital, Abuja.

The drug was approved to treat the flu by the Japanese health ministry in March. Fujifilm Holdings is in talks with the US Food and Drug Administration to begin clinical testing of Favipiravir as an Ebola treatment.

“It is shown to have strong antiviral property against the Ebola virus” in the lab and in patients, the minister said as the Ebola outbreak continues to accelerate in West Africa with the death toll now estimated at 1 552, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The Geneva-based WHO said 3 069 suspected or confirmed cases had been reported in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.

Enough dosages of Favipiravir to treat about 20 000 patients were available.

Nigeria also applied for the experimental Ebola drug TKM-Ebola, Chukwu said.

TKM-Ebola was tested for safety in a small number of humans, but the trial was halted in January when one volunteer developed moderate gastrointestinal side effects.

Nigeria also offered to participate in clinical trials for two Ebola vaccines, the health minister said.

In Liberia, two Ebola-infected health workers who were treated with the experimental drug ZMapp have recovered, the health ministry said Monday.

A third physician treated there with ZMapp, Abraham Dorbor, died last week.

The two doctors who recovered, a Nigerian and a Ugandan working in Liberia, had received ZMapp treatment since August 10, ministry spokesman John Sumo said. They were discharged from a treatment centre in the capital, Monrovia, at the weekend.

Two US health workers, Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, who had contracted Ebola in Liberia, were discharged in mid-August from a hospital in Atlanta, where they had been treated with ZMapp.

Spanish priest Miguel Pajares, however, died from Ebola in a Madrid hospital after his evacuation from Liberia despite also receiving ZMapp.

Ebola causes massive haemorrhaging and is transmitted through contact with blood and other bodily fluids. If left untreated, it has a fatality rate of up to 90 percent. - Sapa-dpa

http://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/nigeria-to-receive-ebola-drug-1.1744258#.VAXMIFeO5vI

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Re: Nigeria To Receive Favipiravir Ebola Drug From Japan by kultimate009: 11:11am On Sep 02, 2014
Hmmm
Re: Nigeria To Receive Favipiravir Ebola Drug From Japan by lilprinze: 11:41am On Sep 02, 2014
Nice 1 I pray it works shame on US and their ZMAPP if they think we would come and kneel down and beg them for their ZMAPP God has proved them wrong to hell with their ZMAPP .

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Re: Nigeria To Receive Favipiravir Ebola Drug From Japan by Babyboy1986(m): 2:57pm On Sep 02, 2014
Ok ooo, I hope e works wella.

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Re: Nigeria To Receive Favipiravir Ebola Drug From Japan by CharlieMaria(m): 2:58pm On Sep 02, 2014
Good.

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Re: Nigeria To Receive Favipiravir Ebola Drug From Japan by Davijunson: 2:59pm On Sep 02, 2014
I hope this drug works so dat America will be put to shame.

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Re: Nigeria To Receive Favipiravir Ebola Drug From Japan by Ipheyemmy01(m): 2:59pm On Sep 02, 2014
Nice work. This is a welcome development. The drug is good, but we need vaccine the more, so that we can be immune against this deadly disease, the carriers animal all sorrounds us here in Africa. . Please vacine is important, because we can't do without bush meat here ooo.

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Re: Nigeria To Receive Favipiravir Ebola Drug From Japan by handysuzy(f): 2:59pm On Sep 02, 2014
Nigeria-seeking for help since october 1 1960

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Re: Nigeria To Receive Favipiravir Ebola Drug From Japan by zeezboy(m): 2:59pm On Sep 02, 2014
Definitely by GOD's GRACE its going 2 work!

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Re: Nigeria To Receive Favipiravir Ebola Drug From Japan by barackodam: 2:59pm On Sep 02, 2014
Glory to God

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Re: Nigeria To Receive Favipiravir Ebola Drug From Japan by Alitair(m): 3:00pm On Sep 02, 2014
Let's hope for the best.

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Re: Nigeria To Receive Favipiravir Ebola Drug From Japan by Nobody: 3:00pm On Sep 02, 2014
What happened to our Nano Silver sad ?

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Re: Nigeria To Receive Favipiravir Ebola Drug From Japan by Jarchi(m): 3:00pm On Sep 02, 2014
Oshe,double wahala for deir sakara

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Re: Nigeria To Receive Favipiravir Ebola Drug From Japan by kalishay: 3:00pm On Sep 02, 2014
I pray it works!!!! Amen. Cox am tired of dreaming of this EBOLA!!!

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Re: Nigeria To Receive Favipiravir Ebola Drug From Japan by sirjohnson(m): 3:00pm On Sep 02, 2014
Our case is better in Nigeria. There is riot going on in Liberia now because the govt abandoned dead bodies on streets and dogs are already feeding on them. Read the news + photos [url=7ne056irudi]Here[/url]

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Re: Nigeria To Receive Favipiravir Ebola Drug From Japan by ojmaroni247(m): 3:01pm On Sep 02, 2014
cool
Re: Nigeria To Receive Favipiravir Ebola Drug From Japan by Nobody: 3:01pm On Sep 02, 2014
Time to invest in Japan .
Re: Nigeria To Receive Favipiravir Ebola Drug From Japan by barackodam: 3:01pm On Sep 02, 2014
handysuzy: Nigeria-seeking for help since october 1 1960
grin
Re: Nigeria To Receive Favipiravir Ebola Drug From Japan by Nobody: 3:02pm On Sep 02, 2014
lilprinze: Nice 1 I pray it works shame on US and their ZMAPP if they think we would come and kneel down and beg them for their ZMAPP God has proved them wrong to hell with their ZMAPP .

What is even wrong with the way you reason?

They explained that they do not have it in large doses and only gave it to hard hit stricken countries like Guinea...

Una own na to beef people for their own property.

Can't you guys do research and find out solutions to a pending problem?

Blame America for everything, hian

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Re: Nigeria To Receive Favipiravir Ebola Drug From Japan by Nobody: 3:02pm On Sep 02, 2014
Since this drug is not from a black man/ Nigeria, the americans won't call it pesticide....smh. Anyways I don't blame them, I blame our MOH who only believes that a Nigerian can never find any cure to any disease.

I only pray this drug works and I also hope it does not have any electrical component inside o, cos japanese technology is electronically wonderful. We don't want any of the recovered victim to be operated with remote control

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Re: Nigeria To Receive Favipiravir Ebola Drug From Japan by Tenim47(m): 3:02pm On Sep 02, 2014
Waw, broda sarafa, u hear am? Abeg prepare 4 ur trip o
Re: Nigeria To Receive Favipiravir Ebola Drug From Japan by Nobody: 3:03pm On Sep 02, 2014
i just hope this drug works one and for all so we will have rest of mind.

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Re: Nigeria To Receive Favipiravir Ebola Drug From Japan by Nobody: 3:03pm On Sep 02, 2014
see name hahaha.. favipi
Re: Nigeria To Receive Favipiravir Ebola Drug From Japan by swhiss: 3:03pm On Sep 02, 2014
etiosa79: see name hahaha.. favipi
does the name really matter? so long as it can fight the virus, no Wahala!

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Re: Nigeria To Receive Favipiravir Ebola Drug From Japan by mrtimycc(m): 3:04pm On Sep 02, 2014
If well investigated, the emergence of the Ebola Virus Disease could be traced back to the G8 nations. Oil money for the drugs! I no talk anything o. Mouth sealed

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Re: Nigeria To Receive Favipiravir Ebola Drug From Japan by dridowu: 3:04pm On Sep 02, 2014
handysuzy: Nigeria-seeking for help since october 1 1960
Mattew 7:7

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Re: Nigeria To Receive Favipiravir Ebola Drug From Japan by Nobody: 3:04pm On Sep 02, 2014
How will this make us to beat Congo on saturday? angry

#teamsupereagles

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Re: Nigeria To Receive Favipiravir Ebola Drug From Japan by pendusky(m): 3:04pm On Sep 02, 2014
All the lab scientists here still keeping mute and won't say anything .. what happened to nano Silver ? any post from lab scientists here on Nairaland would and should be moved to jokes section grin

Because American call your nano silver an insecticide doesn't means u guys should give up.. am disappointed...

And you guys looking for Favicon abi Favipara kini?

smh

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