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Good job. A naija scientist going places

One-year old news being recycled now?

What are their names? I bet 90% of them will be from the same ethnicity/region as Diya and Adisa. Land of born cowards

Liberia Chooses To Give The Only Available 3 Doses Of Zmapp To A Nigerian

and Dr. Aroh Cosmos Izchukwu from Nigeria are the first Africans

Misleading topic. The man though a Nigerian was a doctor in Liberia.

If you were Dr Ada, will you forgive Mr Ada for abandoning you?

This is my own major concern in this. I want to learn from it

Beync: please how did you know there was no contact or even phone call? And yes the right thing to do is not to gum body with her becos he's her husband but to keep a distance and still maintain contact. Btw, what's with this your tribal tune? Igbo this, igbo that, diff people react to situation in diff ways, so stop amusing yourself with igbo marriage.

The recovery of newly wed Dr. Ada, who was immediately abandoned by her husband when she became one of the first Nigerians to test

That is the news report available. If there was any contact even by phone, I guess it would be reported differently, no?

barcanista: bros nobody wan die o

So now that she is recovered what do you think should happen?

barcanista: The Hubby was right to isolate her. Do you want him to contract EVD and die all becos of Marriage? Haba

With no contact even from a distance? Of course he should not be in close contact with her. But phone call and such things? Haba

We should give credit to the Feds and to Lag Govt for their efforts in controlling the spread of this disease and in treating the infected.

We have a teachable moment in this whole thing: now is time to research on infectious communicable diseases, produce drugs (vaccines, curative or at the least respite-given drugs) for them and to be more ready to handle future outbreaks. We can do it. Enough of the disgraceful reliance on the West for everything

Abandoned by husband after first diagnosis of Ebola, Dr. Ada's antibodies offer hope to victims as Nano Silver is ruled out

The recovery of newly wed Dr. Ada, who was immediately abandoned by her husband when she became one of the first Nigerians to test positive to the virus after Sawyer’s death, now offers hope to other victims as the antibodies present in her blood system, which successfully fought off the Ebola virus, could now be used in the treatment of others.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/nigeria-may-have-halted-ebolas-advance-as-doctor-is-discharged/186560/

So the husband of the first doctor (Dr. Ada) who treated the Liberian Ebola terrorist abandoned her when she became infected. Now she has recovered. Ekele diri Chukwu (thanks to God).

If you were Dr Ada, will you forgive Mr Ada for abandoning you?

Keep in mind that she was sick of Ebola virus and so had become infectious. The husband obviously feared being himself infected. Could he have been more subtle with his so-called abandonment?

Also, keep in mind they are Igbos and marriage among Igbos is typically for better for worse, until death. The woman was not dead yet.

Again, also keep in mind that the two American health workers who were sick, and therefore also infectious, had not been abandoned by their spouses. Their families have been in contact with them even from the confines of isolation.

What went wrong with the husband of Dr. Ada? Or is marriage in Nigeria (in this case, Igbos) no longer for better for worse?

tomakint: One thing I find repulsive about them is their nature (though not in all of them) to speak in their dialects whenever someone from another tribe is in their midst .

But this also goes for Yorubas and Hausas/Fulanis. I have personally encountered it uncountable times.

zendy: I'm not sure about the origins of the word 'Oyibo' but in Olaudah Equianos book (Olauda was an Igbo slave who was sold off in the West Indies in the 18th century but later regained his freedom and wrote about his experience) he stated that Igbos called foreigners who came to trade in the market place 'Oyibo'.

And at the time of Olauda Equiano, there was no record of Igbos living in Yoruba land and thus learning their language. So Oyibo is either Igbo or it evolved simultaneously but independently in Igboland (as Oyibo) and in Yorubaland (as Oyinbo)

Taking a different look, it sounds more Yoruba than Igbo though, but WTF. It does not solve anything

jpphilips: Is that it? your final mental exhaustion? tell me exactly, how does it feel to be completely dumb that the world moves so fast leaving you behind?
do you feel depressed sometimes? were you among the chaps who had a salt water bath this morning? still trying so hard to understand the life you live in mental diarrhea. take heart bro!
If until 8th of August you don't see the reason why Onyebuchi chukwu should be fired, then life must be so unfair to you for Moses to have had the duty of executing your creation. take heart again, it is well!!

Why do you want him fired? For Ebola outbreak?

vedaxcool: Ebola Jonathan supporters are not the smartest cookies in the jar, poverty seems to have erode their ability to make sound judgement and by extension their comments on this thread. For #30,000 this individuals have sold their future and their children future, tell me what is more shameful and soul drenching than that?

You are truly, truly smart. It is ''Eroded'', not ''erode''. It is ''children's'' not ''children''

shizzle11: Shut up!

Innoson is doing well, I'm sure his marketing dept is doing well but he will need to step up his media advertising for a wider reach.

Ya gaziere gi, anyi bu umu Igbo kwu gj n'azu!

After trying to shut yourself up, you ended up repeating the exact same thing I advised him to do?

Ikengawo: growing? who in your entire kindred has even bought a car .

You must be a cow for saying that. You must be hoping I am Yoruba. Ewu. I am an Igbo like you and I know that what I have said is correct.

lekkie073: Maurice iwu said we should keep chewing bitter cola na!

Please get serious

If you investigate that ZMapp, you will see that Nigerian scientists may have helped to develop it.

This is a very good observation. Most of the innovations in the US of today involve foreigners (Indians, Chinese, and Africans-especially Nigerians) . Replicating these things back home is an issue for Nigeria because of poor leadership from Nigerians at home. Read this article here
https://www.nairaland.com/1847551/ebola-nigeria-finally-someone-rescue

BuddahMonk: Abeg Innoson should work on his marketing communications, his publicity, online and offline presence oooooo

The company's website is an eyesore, no Facebook fanpage, no Twitter account, no youtube channel, no google adsense presence, no Linkdin account, no Instagram account, he rarely advertise in National Dailies or Large Format billboards in strategic places.

Innoson you have a very big and succesful business but nobody knows you, please he should hire the services of PR experts and Ad Agencies so that the business will have a professional outlook, is listing on the NSE in the offing or should he run his wonderfull business the Ekenedilichukwu way?

Pls experts should meet Innoson as soon as possible so that his product will have a national appeal.

This Innoson guy seems incapable of growing out of the ''Obi and Sons'', ''Ikenga and Bros'' -type business that many Anambra people are known for. This is 21st century. You either swim with the tide (AKA public relations (PR), PR, and more PR) or sink. Good luck!

Hehehe! With all the Igbos trooping in and out of Lagos on minutely basis. God help Abia

Meanwhile...................................


ANAMBRA CORPSE: Contacts test negative to Ebola virus
News Thursday, August 7, 2014



Medical doctors attending to an Ebola virus disease victim

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By Vincent Ujumadu

AWKA-Ebola virus tests conducted on people who had contact with the corpse brought to Nando in Anambra State from Liberia, have all proven negative.

Anambra State government had last week quarantined workers at the mortuary the corpse was deposited, expressing fears that the deceased might have died of the dreaded Ebola virus.

But Vanguard gathered yesterday that all the tests carried out on the workers for the virus turned out negative, even as the final report on the corpse is still being expected.

This came as the annual medical mission organised by Anambra State Association in the United States of America, ASA -USA, at Nando , where the deceased hails, and Nkwele Ezunaka, where the mortuary the corpse was deposited is located, has suffered a setback as the team has refused to work there for fear of the dreaded disease.

A reliable source told Vanguard that the deceased died in an auto crash in Liberia, an information which was not initially made available to the authorities.

Meanwhile, President of ASA-USA, Professor Allison Anadi, who is head of the team of medical experts, told newsmen at Enugu-Ukwu Civic centre where the medical team was attending to people, that his team would not visit the two communities which were earlier among places to carry out this year's exercise because of the rumour of victims of Ebola virus in the areas.

Anadi said: "To be on a safe side, members of my executive have decided to stay away from those areas until the rumour about the spread of Ebola virus is investigated and cleared by the government."

He pledged the commitment of his association to carry out research towards tackling the Ebola virus to ensure that it did not ravage the people of the state.

Anadi, however, said that the most prevalent health challenges among the people of the state, going by their record since they started the medical mission about 12 years ago, included vision problem, diabetics and hypertension.

He added that within the period, the medical team had visited about 90 of the 178 communities in the state and had attended to over 900,000 people.

Anadi noted that due to limited resources in the state, including medical facilities, funds and manpower, his association considered it imperative to assist the government with the annual medical services to the people.

http://odili.net/news/source/2014/aug/7/313.html

Our bros from SW, enough of human rituals

A country of 170 million, bar a few 1000s, ignoramuses

Quoted below is the kind of response we should be having for the medium and long term for Ebola. Research, research and more research, towards producing potential drugs against the disease. Ebola is now in Nigeria and very likely to stay (periodic outbreaks)

He pledged the commitment of his association to carry out research towards tackling the Ebola virus to ensure that it did not ravage the people of the state.

......President of ASA-USA, Professor Allison Anadi, who is head of the team of medical experts

Warning: The title of this thread is garnished to lure you to it because I feel it is not getting the deserved attention

Original title is ''The Ebola-ic rants of a peeved African''

I have just read from a few Nigerian blogs where Nigerians blame President Obama for not approving the ZMAPP drug presently used to treat the two American health workers who contacted the virus in Liberia. I say to such people, shed you ignorance; stop your blame game. Obama is not the drug approver-in-chief in America. America is not Nigeria where anything goes. In advanced societies, procedures are followed, no matter what is at stake. The process of drug manufacturing is long, windy and complicated. After drug design, several clinical tests are conducted in model animals, prior to clinical trials in humans and then approval for human use. This process could take upwards of 5, 10, 15 years, depending on several factors. In this case, the drug in question has only been tested in monkeys; monkeys and other primates are human’s closest genetic relatives in the animal kingdom. As such, the result from the monkey test is, no doubt, promising. Nevertheless, humans are not exactly monkeys, and this drug has never been tested in humans until it was recently used in an unusual manner, on the two Americans. Although it has helped to prolong the lives of these Americans, there is absolutely no knowledge regarding its potential side effects on them. These patients may be cured, in full or partially, of their Ebola infection but could come down sooner or later with other complications such as heart, liver or kidney failure, or even cancer, as side effects of the drug. Imagine a situation where the drug is given to Africans and other complications as mentioned above happen. What do you think the African reaction would be? They’d scream that America and the West have come to kill Africans, to finish off what slavery and colonization could not do. Already, many ignorant Africans believe, or are alleging, that the Ebola virus was sent to Africa by westerners. Do you have any evidence to prove that? Do you even have a clue about what you are accusing people of?

Under this circumstance of too many unknowns, I support that the drug be further tested for both its efficacy against Ebola and potential side effects on the patient, prior to use in Africa. A few more Africans infected with the Ebola virus might, regrettably, die during the drug testing period. However, Africans should take solace in the fact that they have their ''guinea pigs'' in the medical workers presently being treated with the drug; it takes great courage for medical experts to allow themselves be tested with a completely uncharacterized concoction. I am not in doubt that at the right time, America will step in, as usual; ‘’Obama’’ may yet change his mind. But even if the US government eventually fast tracks the drug approval process, it still has to be mass-produced and shipped to 1000s of end users, under optimum conditions that will not compromise its potency. There is no last-minute bus to hike on in this one.

Whichever way this goes; that is, whether or not the dug becomes officially available soon, this Ebola outbreak in West Africa (the most important region of Sub Sahara Africa) has exposed the rotten underbelly of Africa. It has shown that Africans are incapable of any scientific achievement that can solve a practical problem. Ebola has been in Africa for decades now; yet Africans have lacked the will, ability or even interest in researching the virus and the disease to find potential cure. There have been survivors of this disease in the different countries it has occurred. Do Africans even realize that surviving Ebola implies there is something genetic in the survivor that protected them from Ebola’s onslaught? Do they know that whatever it is, that ‘‘Ebola survival marker’’ could be tapped into for the good of all? Why have African governments and business moguls not deemed it fit all this while to fund research on the possibility of using these survivors to produce antibodies that could then be tested on model animals? Or, why have Africans not infected model animals with the virus, isolate the antibodies elicited by the virus and refine them further for possible use as drugs? Taking the argument beyond Ebola, can anyone show me one significant thing that an African (scientist, professor, engineer etc.) resident in Africa discovered, designed or manufactured that is of continental, let alone global importance? There are 100s of 1000s of African doctors, engineers and scientists in the West doing great stuff and contributing to their adopted societies. Every now and then some of these people look back to Africa to see where and how they can assist in its development. But the governments of African countries have not been able to put in place the most basic of conditions that allow for simple scientific activities to go on in Africa? There is no electricity; the schools are decrepit and ill-funded; there is no security of lives and property. Some Nigerians in diaspora have come home to assist and got killed or kidnapped for money, so ending their life’s journey in a senseless manner. Where is the outrage from Africans in Africa?

Why do Africans wait for the white man to do virtually everything for them? Why are Africans unable to help themselves? Shame on Africa; you are, indeed, a dark continent in this 21st century. Now that Ebola is with Africa, I wish that it leaves the poor, economically-emasculated Africans and the health workers assisting them, and pounce instead on their corrupt leaders. Could Africans learn a thing or two from the Ebola outbreak on how to be proactive in science, research and engineering for the benefit of Africa? Africa would be doomed if its people continue in the current path of lack of vision and innovation.