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Diamond1960:
STUDY VISA TAKE JUST 10 WORKING DAYS THAT IS TWO WEEKS FROM YOUR DATE OF SUBMISSION.. THE ONLY THING THAT MAY CAUSE DELAY IS WHEN THEY CALL YOU FOR ADDITIONAL DOCUMENT. IT IS ONLY SOUTH AFRICAN EMBASSY THAT ATTENDS TO STUDY PERMIT AND NOT VSF... IF YOU SUBMIT ON THURS 28TH JAN YOU WILL BE TOLD TO COME AND PICK YOUR INTL PASSPORT ON 12TH OF FEB...

GOODLUCK


THE EMBASSY IS AT OKOYA THOMAS V.I YOU CAN GET A TRICYCLE FROM OBALENDE GOING TOWARD EKO HOTEL ROUND ABOUT V.I

Is it possible for someone living in Abuja to obtain d application form for SA student visa in Abuja, complete and still submit it in Abuja or I'll have to travel to Lagos to do it?

2015/2016 Admission List
LIST OF STANDARD FLIGHT OPERATION COURSE NO. 17 (SFO)
1.     IBRAHIM ABUBAKAR SANI
2.     WALE AMINCHI
3.     OLUGBENGA ANTHONY T.
4.     NWOGWONUWE EKENE  DENNIS
5.     OLUWASOLA  BAMIDELE OJO
6.     OGUNLOLA  KEHINDE ADEBAYO
7.     NINYIO N. AGHYI LUKA
8.     AUWAL SA’AD IBRAHIM
9.     OLAJUBU OLANREWAJU ENIOLA
10. OMORUI OHE GIFT 
11. ABDULLAHI SABITU YUNUSA
12. AMINU YUSUF ABDULLAHI
13. ALIAGWU CHIDINMA PRISCILLA
14. PETER O. OGBORU
15. GABRIEL MICHEAL OKESHOLA
16. OLAYONU FEMI SAMUEL
17. SAMUEL RAHAB
18. NGELE IFEANYI NICOLAS
19. OSINEYE OLUGBEGA S.

 

 
LIST OF STANDARD PILOT COURSE NO.31 (SP-31)
  1.     KYOLA T. DYAJI
2.     ENWELUM IKENNA DENNIS
3.     JESSE-ALEX OMENAZU
4.     ABDULKAREEM  SANI
5.     ADEJUMO YEMI
6.     IKPEKHAI MICHEAL AIGBOKHAEVWO
7.     BAWA DAVID
8.     SAMUEL INNOCENT NYANE
9.     BUHARI ABUBAKAR SULEIMAN
10.    ABDULKAREEM OYIBO
11.    BAHAGO ABRAHAM SONY
12.    GIDADO R. CALEB



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Good one!

G0ldcircle:
Lol. Done 1,2,4,6,12,15 and 16. Most especially 15. There are times I just enjoy dat yeye smell and chill alone in d midst of d odor. I also pull my lil broda's hand to my ass and fart on it. Lol

Your a*s hole go tear one day.
Naughty girl. Lol

CaroLyner:
what are you telling me.even intelligent guys chase girls.
teamhardtoget#

I hope u will play hard to get until u reach d age of 40

Estharfabian:
Vivid Plagiarism...

this isn't Original... PS--It made frontage Ages ago...

Please Copy something we haven't Seen...

You r right. This op na copy cat

SSpeter:
I have not been feeling too well lately, I visited a clinic. I took some drugs but it didn't alleviate the pain so the doctor referred me to a friend of his at the teaching hospital. I got info that the place is often crowded to I decided to leave home early so that I could still utilise the latter part of the day. When I arrived, they were people already waiting for the doc. We queued while sitting on a bench. I was the last person on the bench although we sat comfortably, that means the bench could still accommodate one more person with a degree of discomfort. Minutes later, A beautiful lady....really pretty....walks towards me and was about to use her buttocks to shove me inwards without uttering a word. Immediately I expanded my legs and gave her a slight push....Just as I looked the other way.....People on the bench didn't even blink someone sitting on the bench even hissed.......when she stood and couldn't find where to sit she walked away embarrassed .....later a guy came and was like....good morning can I join you? I was like sure...I dragged my buttocks a bit and we all squeezed ourselves while sitting on the bench. She came back and was walking aimlessly starring icily at me. I just fix my Ipod, blast music.
..........................I know some other ladies do these act too but no matter how pretty or beautiful you are if you lack courtesy, you are a pile of trash waiting for lawma!

Which kind yeye beauty be dt na?
After all beauty fades with time.
1000,000 likes 4u bro.
No homo!!

Obioraaa:
[color=#990100]meanwhile



In one hotel room somewhere on Earth, one hapless female gold digger is forcing an old sugar daddy's half-dead_penis into her creaky vagina for the same reason you just mentioned..




You can take this as a redress or whatever.. I don't care..[/color]

The guy I quoted deserves a keg of palm wine.
Don't worry about d bill bc its on me.

klem93:
Amazing christian and Godly family. A Lovely Photo Indeed...

This guy reminds me of his movie- Just a little sin.
Lovely family!

Divineluv14:
What a man can do, a woman can do more better.

We run the world!

Ladies run d world abi?
Then na who dey run d ladies na??...

M

E

N

tpiar:
why, why not?

Iffahia!

Vanity upon vanity!

This could be just a minor "battalion job" wey some malicious senior cadets dey use chawus their culprits na.
This could be Burma or Morgadishu battalion! Lol

Kenshinmunac:
Lol big man, gun without bullet can't fire

Bros eh, I go comot from friend zone, bite her and tactically assume friend zone again oooo. Lol

Kenshinmunac:
#7 after waiting for so long to show you are real, she finally sends your sorry ass to the friend zone.

Are u saying dt it's impossible to "strike" even while friend zoned?
Mek she friend zone me na!
Iffa hear say I no make things happen.

Kenshinmunac:
#7 after waiting for so long to show you are real, she finally sends your sorry ass to the friend zone.

Are u saying dt it's impossible to "strike" even while friend zoned?

donTbone:
God bless you jare! #teamGunners

na we dey here so

Nervous flyer? Just want to know you're traveling with a reliable airline? Find out who are the world's safest airlines


AirlineRatings.com, the world’s only safety and product rating website, which was launched in June 2013, has announced its top twenty safest airlines and top ten safest low cost airlines for 2016 from the 407 it monitors.
 
Top of the list for the third year is Australia’s Qantas, which has a fatality free record in the jet era – an extraordinary record. Making up the remainder of the top twenty in alphabetical order are: Air New Zealand, Alaska Airlines, All Nippon Airlines, American Airlines, Cathay Pacific Airways, Emirates, Etihad Airways, EVA Air, Finnair, Hawaiian Airlines, Japan Airlines, KLM, Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airline System, Singapore Airlines, Swiss, United Airlines, Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Australia.
 
AirlineRatings.com’s rating system takes into account a range of factors related to audits from aviation’s governing bodies and lead associations as well as government audits and the airline’s fatality record. AirlineRating.com’s editorial team, one of the world’s most awarded and experienced, also examined each airline’s operational history, incident records and operational excellence to arrive at its top twenty safest airlines.

Read: HOW DO WE SAFETY RATE EACH  AIRLINE?
 
The AirlineRatings.com top twenty have always been at the forefront of safety innovation and launching of new aircraft and these airlines have become a byword for excellence. Responding to public interest, the AirlineRatings.com editors also identified their top ten safest low cost airlines.
 
They are in alphabetical order: Aer Lingus, Flybe, HK Express, Jetblue, Jetstar Australia, Thomas Cook, TUI Fly, Virgin America, Volaris and Westjet.
 
Unlike a number of low cost carriers, these airlines have all passed the stringent International Air Transport Association Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) and have excellent safety records.

 

You know  the safest - but which airlines offer you the best experience on board? 


Of the 407 airlines surveyed, 148 have the top seven-star safety ranking but almost 50 have just three stars or less. There are 10 airlines with only one star and these airlines are from Indonesia, Nepal and Surinam.
 
In selecting Qantas as the world’s safest airline AirlineRatings.com editors noted that over its 95-year history the world’s oldest continuously operating airline has amassed an extraordinary record of firsts in operations and safety and is now accepted as the industry’s most experienced carrier.
 
The Australian airline has been a leader in: the development of the Future Air Navigation System; the Flight Data Recorder to monitor plane and later crew performance; automatic landings using Global Navigation Satellite System as well as precision approaches around mountains in cloud using RNP. Qantas was the lead airline with real time monitoring of its engines across its fleet using satellite communications, which has enabled the airline to detect problems before they become a major safety issue.
 

World's scariest landing


Last year was a disturbing year for airline safety with some tragic and bizarre accidents such as the high profile GermanWings and Metrojet disasters. However according to Aviation-Safety.net data, the 16 accidents in 2015 with 560 fatalities were below the 10-year average of 31 accidents and 714 fatalities. Last year was also a significant improvement over 2014 when there were 21 fatal accidents with 986 fatalities.
 
Balancing these numbers the world’s airlines carried a record 3.6 billion passengers on 34 million flights in 2015.
 
Flashback 50 years and there were a staggering 87 crashes killing 1,597 when airlines carried only 141 million passengers – 5 per cent of today’s number.
 
Source: http://www.airlineratings.com/news/630/who-are-the-worlds-safest-airlines-for-2016

Cc: Lalasticlala, DisGuy, Justwise.
Pls do the needful

Nervous flyer? Just want to know you're traveling with a reliable airline? Find out who are the world's safest airlines


AirlineRatings.com, the world’s only safety and product rating website, which was launched in June 2013, has announced its top twenty safest airlines and top ten safest low cost airlines for 2016 from the 407 it monitors.
 
Top of the list for the third year is Australia’s Qantas, which has a fatality free record in the jet era – an extraordinary record. Making up the remainder of the top twenty in alphabetical order are: Air New Zealand, Alaska Airlines, All Nippon Airlines, American Airlines, Cathay Pacific Airways, Emirates, Etihad Airways, EVA Air, Finnair, Hawaiian Airlines, Japan Airlines, KLM, Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airline System, Singapore Airlines, Swiss, United Airlines, Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Australia.
 
AirlineRatings.com’s rating system takes into account a range of factors related to audits from aviation’s governing bodies and lead associations as well as government audits and the airline’s fatality record. AirlineRating.com’s editorial team, one of the world’s most awarded and experienced, also examined each airline’s operational history, incident records and operational excellence to arrive at its top twenty safest airlines.

Read: HOW DO WE SAFETY RATE EACH  AIRLINE?
 
The AirlineRatings.com top twenty have always been at the forefront of safety innovation and launching of new aircraft and these airlines have become a byword for excellence. Responding to public interest, the AirlineRatings.com editors also identified their top ten safest low cost airlines.
 
They are in alphabetical order: Aer Lingus, Flybe, HK Express, Jetblue, Jetstar Australia, Thomas Cook, TUI Fly, Virgin America, Volaris and Westjet.
 
Unlike a number of low cost carriers, these airlines have all passed the stringent International Air Transport Association Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) and have excellent safety records.

 

You know  the safest - but which airlines offer you the best experience on board? 


Of the 407 airlines surveyed, 148 have the top seven-star safety ranking but almost 50 have just three stars or less. There are 10 airlines with only one star and these airlines are from Indonesia, Nepal and Surinam.
 
In selecting Qantas as the world’s safest airline AirlineRatings.com editors noted that over its 95-year history the world’s oldest continuously operating airline has amassed an extraordinary record of firsts in operations and safety and is now accepted as the industry’s most experienced carrier.
 
The Australian airline has been a leader in: the development of the Future Air Navigation System; the Flight Data Recorder to monitor plane and later crew performance; automatic landings using Global Navigation Satellite System as well as precision approaches around mountains in cloud using RNP. Qantas was the lead airline with real time monitoring of its engines across its fleet using satellite communications, which has enabled the airline to detect problems before they become a major safety issue.
 

World's scariest landing


Last year was a disturbing year for airline safety with some tragic and bizarre accidents such as the high profile GermanWings and Metrojet disasters. However according to Aviation-Safety.net data, the 16 accidents in 2015 with 560 fatalities were below the 10-year average of 31 accidents and 714 fatalities. Last year was also a significant improvement over 2014 when there were 21 fatal accidents with 986 fatalities.
 
Balancing these numbers the world’s airlines carried a record 3.6 billion passengers on 34 million flights in 2015.
 
Flashback 50 years and there were a staggering 87 crashes killing 1,597 when airlines carried only 141 million passengers – 5 per cent of today’s number.
 
Source: http://www.airlineratings.com/news/630/who-are-the-worlds-safest-airlines-for-2016

Cc: Lalasticlala, DisGuy, Justwise.
Pls do the needful

naruto02:
Madiba bay school of flight in port Elizabeth

same here bro! What a small world!! I'll pm u assap!!!

RDV:
Hello Everybody,

I still dey. Its quite busy at work, so not much time these days for internet, but I still dey to answer any questions you migh have.

CTC Wings is very well known, and has a good reputation. Am not 100 percent sure how it works these days, but in my own days, you had to already have your ATPL before you could even apply for the scheme.

...Following ur posts bumper to bumper like ant dey follow sugar.

RDV:
@femo2000,



haba,, no need for envy,, I dey here for you too 



There is a bit of politics,, but not in the way that you are thinking. I will explain that later.

First of all, don't worry at all about the term "cadet". It does not mean anything. It is just a way of describing trainee pilots that are sponsored by an airline, to differentiate them from trainees that are paying for the course themselves, who are described as "self-sponsored".

You do not become a cadet until the airline agrees to sponsor you, and you sign all the agreements, etc. So you could be working for Virgin as a ticket agent, cabin crew, baggage loader, driver, or whatever,, then you apply for sponsorship, and then when you are accepted, they start to describe you as a cadet. That is why the 10 guys you were talking about were already working for VN before they became cadets. (In actual fact, the majority of them were cabin crew and office staff  before they became cadets). That is also why no one heard about the whole thing until after they had been selected. all advertising was done internally.

When the cadets finish their training, they come back and start flying as Second Officers, and then they progress in time to First Officer, and finally Captain.

The Politics - The only politics going on here, is that VN selected the cadets from within the workforce, and did not place an advert in the newspaper, or advertise on TV, Radio etc.  But, that is very normal in the airline business. Pilot training is very expensive, and airlines are always very afraid of selecting someone who ends up not being able to complete the course, or will not fit in to the company culture, when this happens, the airline loses a lot of money.

It therefore makes more sense for them to select people who are already known within the company, regardless of what type of job they are doing in the company. They already know the type of person you are, your ability, your performance, etc, and can make a better judgement about how succesful you will be, compared to a JJC that just walks in from the street.

That is why 99% of airlines will choose internally. If there is a lack of internal candidates, then they will advertise and recruit externally. But external candidates will go through a much tougher selection process, involving interview, aptitiude tests, psychometric tests, etc, again because the risk is greater for the airline. The internal selection will not be as rigorous, because they know you already.

SO, the bottom line?

If you cannot get private sponsorship (like IVY4U), and are really keen for the VN sponsorship, your best starting point, is to get any kind of job you feel comfortable with, at VN. Once you are in, then you will have the earlier opportunity to apply to become a cadet. From within, you can lobby and network with the people that matter much better than you can as an outsider. ( The ideal starting point, in my view, is as cabin crew, or flight dispatch, or flight operations, you get to interact in those jobs, everyday, with the very same people who make the decisions on recruitement of cadets)



Also a good alternative option. The conversion from rotary to fixed wing later in your career is also quite straightforward. The academic training is exactly the same. so, if you can get rotary sponsorship, go for it. The conditions of sponsorship usually mean that you have to work for the company for something like 5 years after graduation, but after that you can do a small conversion course and switch to fixed wing if you like.

Good luck with whatever option you end up choosing. Any more questions,, I dey here for you. 

Oga me, I must say that ur posts are so educative!
I'm following them with keen interest!!
My questions will come much later.
Oga u are too much

bisi16:
Hi all, I really wish this thread can be revived. Am a potential student pilot who'll be jetting out soon to S.Africa 4 my training. If any1 can help me wit books I can start reading 4rm now, it 'll be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

I'm sure u are enjoying your training in sA now. Pls update us on ur experience in sA so far

naruto02:
Hello house, very soon I'd like to travel to sa for school (flying school to be precise). I read most of the requirements for the visa stuff but what I want to clarify is that the official bank statement, is it going to be your sponsors bank account or your sponsor has to transfer the money into your bank account. Secondly, are going to book a flight before or after the visa is been granted? Finally how long does it take to grant your visa application

Wow!
I think you and I have the same mission in SA.
What flying school are u attending in SA??

Key Facts

*Lassa fever is an acute viral haemorrhagic illness of 1-4 weeks duration that occurs in West Africa.

*The Lassa virus is transmitted to humans via contact with food or household items contaminated with rodent urine or faeces.

*Person-to-person infections and laboratory transmission can also occur, particularly in hospitals lacking adequate infection prevent and Control measures.

*Lassa fever is known to be endemic in Benin (where it was diagnosed for the first time in November 2014), Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and parts of Nigeria, but probably exists in other West African countries as well.

*The overall case-fatality rate is 1%. Observed case-fatality rate among patients hospitalized with severe cases of Lassa fever is 15%.

*Early supportive care with rehydration and symptomatic treatment improves survival.


Background

Though first described in the 1950s, the virus causing Lassa disease was not identified until 1969. The virus is a single-stranded RNA virus belonging to the virus family Arenaviridae .

About 80% of people who become infected with Lassa virus have no symptoms. One in five infections result in severe disease, where the virus affects several organs such as the liver, spleen and kidneys.

Lassa fever is a zoonotic disease, meaning that
humans become infected from contact with infected animals. The animal reservoir, or host, of Lassa virus is a rodent of the genus Mastomys, commonly known as the “multimammate rat.” Mastomys rats infected with Lassa virus do not become ill, but they can shed the virus in their urine and faeces.

Because the clinical course of the disease is so variable, detection of the disease in affected patients has been difficult. However, when presence of the disease is confirmed in a community, prompt isolation of affected patients, good infection protection and control practices
and rigorous contact tracing can stop outbreaks.

Symptoms of Lassa fever

The incubation period of Lassa fever ranges from 6-21 days. The onset of the disease, when it is symptomatic, is usually gradual, starting with fever, general weakness, and malaise. After a few days, headache,sore throat, muscle pain, chest pain, nausea, vomiting,diarrhoea, cough, and abdominal pain may follow. In severe cases facial swelling, fluid in the lung cavity, bleeding from the mouth, nose, vagina or gastrointestinal tract and low blood pressure may develop. Protein may be noted in the urine. Shock,seizures, tremor, disorientation, and coma may be seen in the later stages. Deafness occurs in 25% of patients who survive the disease. In half of these cases, hearing returns partially after 1-3 months. Transient hair loss and gait disturbance may occur during recovery.

Death usually occurs within 14 days of onset in fatal ases. The disease is especially severe late in
pregnancy, with maternal death and/or fetal loss
occurring in greater than 80% of cases during the third trimester.


Transmission

Humans usually become infected with Lassa virus from exposure to urine or faeces of infected Mastomys rats.Lassa virus may also be spread between humans through direct contact with the blood, urine, faeces, or other bodily secretions of a person infected with Lassa fever. There is no epidemiological evidence supporting airborne spread between humans. Person-to-person
transmission occurs in both community and health-care settings, where the virus may be spread by contaminated medical equipment, such as re-used needles. Sexual transmission of Lassa virus has been reported.

Lassa fever occurs in all age groups and both sexes.Persons at greatest risk are those living in rural areas where Mastomys are usually found, especially in communities with poor sanitation or crowded living conditions. Health workers are at risk if caring for Lassa fever patients in the absence of proper barrier nursing and infection control practices.

Diagnosis

Because the symptoms of Lassa fever are so varied and non-specific, clinical diagnosis is often difficult,especially early in the course of the disease. Lassa fever is difficult to distinguish from other viral haemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola virus disease; and many other diseases that cause fever, including malaria, shigellosis, typhoid fever and yellow fever.

Definitive diagnosis requires testing that is available only in specialized laboratories. Laboratory specimens may be hazardous and must be handled with extreme care. Lassa virus infections can only be diagnosed definitively in the laboratory using the following tests:

*antibody enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
(ELISA)
*antigen detection tests
*reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction
(RT-PCR) assay
*virus isolation by cell culture.


Treatment and vaccines

The antiviral drug ribavirin seems to be an effective
treatment for Lassa fever if given early on in the course of clinical illness. There is no evidence to support the role of ribavirin as post-exposure prophylactic treatment for Lassa fever.

There is currently no vaccine that protects against
Lassa fever.

Prevention and control

Prevention of Lassa fever relies on promoting good
“community hygiene” to discourage rodents from
entering homes. Effective measures include storing
grain and other foodstuffs in rodent proof containers,disposing of garbage far from the home, maintaining clean households and keeping cats. Because Mastomys are so abundant in endemic areas, it is not possible to completely eliminate them from the environment.

Family members should always be careful to avoid
contact with blood and body fluids while caring for sick persons.

In health-care settings, staff should always apply
standard infection prevention and control precautions when caring for patients, regardless of their presumed diagnosis. These include basic hand hygiene,respiratory hygiene, use of personal protective equipment (to block splashes or other contact with infected materials), safe injection practices and safe burial practices.

Health workers caring for patients with suspected or confirmed Lassa fever should apply extra infection control measures to prevent contact with the patient’s blood and body fluids and contaminated surfaces or materials such as clothing and bedding. When in close contact (within 1 metre) of patients with Lassa fever, health-care workers should wear face protection (a face shield or a medical mask and goggles), a clean, non-sterile long-sleeved gown, and gloves (sterile gloves for some procedures).

Laboratory workers are also at risk. Samples taken
from humans and animals for investigation of Lassa virus infection should be handled by trained staff and processed in suitably equipped laboratories.

On rare occasions, travellers from areas where Lassa fever is endemic export the disease to other countries.

Although malaria, typhoid fever, and many other tropical infections are much more common, the diagnosis of Lassa fever should be considered in febrile patients returning from West Africa, especially if they have had exposures in rural areas or hospitals in countries where

Lassa fever is known to be endemic. Health-care
workers seeing a patient suspected to have Lassa fever should immediately contact local and national experts for advice and to arrange for laboratory testing.

From: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs179/en/

Cc: lalasticlala, RoyalBoy
Pls do the needful.

Key facts

*Lassa fever is an acute viral haemorrhagic illness of 1-4 weeks duration that occurs in West Africa.

*The Lassa virus is transmitted to humans via contact with food or household items contaminated with rodent urine or faeces.

*Person-to-person infections and laboratory transmission can also occur, particularly in hospitals lacking adequate infection prevent and Control measures.

*Lassa fever is known to be endemic in Benin (where it was diagnosed for the first time in November 2014), Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and parts of Nigeria, but probably exists in other West African countries as well.

*The overall case-fatality rate is 1%. Observed case-fatality rate among patients hospitalized with severe cases of Lassa fever is 15%.

*Early supportive care with rehydration and symptomatic treatment improves survival.


Background

Though first described in the 1950s, the virus causing Lassa disease was not identified until 1969. The virus is a single-stranded RNA virus belonging to the virus family Arenaviridae .

About 80% of people who become infected with Lassa virus have no symptoms. One in five infections result in severe disease, where the virus affects several organs such as the liver, spleen and kidneys.

Lassa fever is a zoonotic disease, meaning that
humans become infected from contact with infected animals. The animal reservoir, or host, of Lassa virus is a rodent of the genus Mastomys, commonly known as the “multimammate rat.” Mastomys rats infected with Lassa virus do not become ill, but they can shed the virus in their urine and faeces.

Because the clinical course of the disease is so variable, detection of the disease in affected patients has been difficult. However, when presence of the disease is confirmed in a community, prompt isolation of affected patients, good infection protection and control practices
and rigorous contact tracing can stop outbreaks.

Symptoms of Lassa fever

The incubation period of Lassa fever ranges from 6-21 days. The onset of the disease, when it is symptomatic, is usually gradual, starting with fever, general weakness, and malaise. After a few days, headache,sore throat, muscle pain, chest pain, nausea, vomiting,diarrhoea, cough, and abdominal pain may follow. In severe cases facial swelling, fluid in the lung cavity, bleeding from the mouth, nose, vagina or gastrointestinal tract and low blood pressure may develop. Protein may be noted in the urine. Shock,seizures, tremor, disorientation, and coma may be seen in the later stages. Deafness occurs in 25% of patients who survive the disease. In half of these cases, hearing returns partially after 1-3 months. Transient hair loss and gait disturbance may occur during recovery.

Death usually occurs within 14 days of onset in fatal ases. The disease is especially severe late in
pregnancy, with maternal death and/or fetal loss
occurring in greater than 80% of cases during the third trimester.


Transmission

Humans usually become infected with Lassa virus from exposure to urine or faeces of infected Mastomys rats.Lassa virus may also be spread between humans through direct contact with the blood, urine, faeces, or other bodily secretions of a person infected with Lassa fever. There is no epidemiological evidence supporting airborne spread between humans. Person-to-person
transmission occurs in both community and health-care settings, where the virus may be spread by contaminated medical equipment, such as re-used needles. Sexual transmission of Lassa virus has been reported.

Lassa fever occurs in all age groups and both sexes.Persons at greatest risk are those living in rural areas where Mastomys are usually found, especially in communities with poor sanitation or crowded living conditions. Health workers are at risk if caring for Lassa fever patients in the absence of proper barrier nursing and infection control practices.

Diagnosis

Because the symptoms of Lassa fever are so varied and non-specific, clinical diagnosis is often difficult,especially early in the course of the disease. Lassa fever is difficult to distinguish from other viral haemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola virus disease; and many other diseases that cause fever, including malaria, shigellosis, typhoid fever and yellow fever.

Definitive diagnosis requires testing that is available only in specialized laboratories. Laboratory specimens may be hazardous and must be handled with extreme care. Lassa virus infections can only be diagnosed definitively in the laboratory using the following tests:

*antibody enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
(ELISA)
*antigen detection tests
*reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction
(RT-PCR) assay
*virus isolation by cell culture.


Treatment and vaccines

The antiviral drug ribavirin seems to be an effective
treatment for Lassa fever if given early on in the course of clinical illness. There is no evidence to support the role of ribavirin as post-exposure prophylactic treatment for Lassa fever.

There is currently no vaccine that protects against
Lassa fever.

Prevention and control

Prevention of Lassa fever relies on promoting good
“community hygiene” to discourage rodents from
entering homes. Effective measures include storing
grain and other foodstuffs in rodent proof containers,disposing of garbage far from the home, maintaining clean households and keeping cats. Because Mastomys are so abundant in endemic areas, it is not possible to completely eliminate them from the environment.

Family members should always be careful to avoid
contact with blood and body fluids while caring for sick persons.

In health-care settings, staff should always apply
standard infection prevention and control precautions when caring for patients, regardless of their presumed diagnosis. These include basic hand hygiene,respiratory hygiene, use of personal protective equipment (to block splashes or other contact with infected materials), safe injection practices and safe burial practices.

Health workers caring for patients with suspected or confirmed Lassa fever should apply extra infection control measures to prevent contact with the patient’s blood and body fluids and contaminated surfaces or materials such as clothing and bedding. When in close contact (within 1 metre) of patients with Lassa fever, health-care workers should wear face protection (a face shield or a medical mask and goggles), a clean, non-sterile long-sleeved gown, and gloves (sterile gloves for some procedures).

Laboratory workers are also at risk. Samples taken
from humans and animals for investigation of Lassa virus infection should be handled by trained staff and processed in suitably equipped laboratories.

On rare occasions, travellers from areas where Lassa fever is endemic export the disease to other countries.

Although malaria, typhoid fever, and many other tropical infections are much more common, the diagnosis of Lassa fever should be considered in febrile patients returning from West Africa, especially if they have had exposures in rural areas or hospitals in countries where

Lassa fever is known to be endemic. Health-care
workers seeing a patient suspected to have Lassa fever should immediately contact local and national experts for advice and to arrange for laboratory testing.

Source: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs179/en/

Cc: lalasticlala, dominique, sissy3
Pls do the needful

czarr:
African men like curvy women not fat women claiming thick

Curvy is Beyonce,j lo,Nicki and they all have flat bellies,not some of our naija girls who will upon the pot belly still wear fitting clothes and think its attractive...

A thousand likes 4u bro.
No homo!

Creamish:
Are u guys married?

D'u have a joint account?

If "NO"..then I see no reason why u should be pissed that he Dint tell u about his savings...esp since u once broke up wit him due to his financial status (or at least datz what he believes).

Secondly, he Dint call u on New year's day...did u call him? No. Wat if he had some issues? Ur being selfish IMO...

Nwayz... U need to calm d Fk down and think things thru only when calm. If u have nagging doubts, then address it with him. Communication is key in every relationship. Assumptions are relationship killers.

Babe, ur sense of reasoning no be from here lai-lai!!
Am sending u a pm straight up.
Let's be friends creamish.

Eveezy:
lol, u know dis question is so amazing nd so many gals will say "hell no, I don't have d patience" I will speak frm experience b4 I first had sex, if I had told anyone I was, dey wouldn't beliv, nd d first gal I Eva did it wit said nd I quote "wow! Evi u can really kill a woman on bed, wat did u take? nd u were forming humble" I jst layed on her nd smiled, for my mind I be like "for real? dis na my first tym ooo" . well definitely not all guys could be like me BT jst know DT not all virgins are actually novice in sex. they just simply haven't done penetration

That's very correct!
The first girl I grazed squirt like a volcano. Till today, she doesn't know she was my first lay. I had no difficulties locating her center of gravity (thanks to d books I read about sexuality and thanks to my john-thomas for accepting the challenge).
She was squirting, jerking, crying and begging me not to stop.
Grace will never believe that she actually too my virginity because I was a pro right from day 1.
Grace I dey hail ooo...
Babe u too much joooooor!

KingEli:
Oga relax....na babe she be....Tell her u were having the same thing in mind......when next she comes to ur house,,treat her like ur sister...don't make any sexual move towards her.......infact if she is on d bed,,go sit on d floor....If she comes to d floor,, go sit on the couch...When Mr Konjinus hold am,,,na she go call u tell u say 'baby, I've changed my mind let's have sex'......

Bad guy!

kaziblake:
Op thank you
The only white women I have seen with our black guys are the overweight ones and grandma's.

U r right jooor!

Men!
Our own suffer(ness) no be for here ooo...
E don tey wey we don dey suffer.
Chei!!