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voltron14:
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Towards the end of World War I, in September 1918, two troop ships arrived in Cape Town from England carrying over 2,000 black South African Labour Corps soldiers. They were being repatriated after spending over a year behind the lines on the battlefields of France and Belgium where, as non-combatants (the South African government of the day did not allow black people to bear arms), they had provided ancillary support for the white soldiers in the frontline.

Their voyage included a coaling stopover in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where Spanish flu was already raging. Within days of their departure from there, cases of influenza began to appear aboard both ships. When the first of them docked in Table Bay, 13 of the soldiers were still laid up.

The corps’ medical officer insisted that the influenza on board was similar to ordinary influenza. Nevertheless, as a precautionary measure, the state’s local medical officer had the sick troops placed in isolation at 7 Military Hospital in Woodstock. The rest of the men were put under quarantine at a military camp at Rosebank. There they were all medically examined thrice in 72 hours for signs of influenza before they could be demobilized.

But these examinations were rather cursory. And three days later all were allowed to board trains for their homes across the country. It is clear that the enforcement of the quarantine at the camp was cursory too. A local journalist wrote in the Cape Argus, the Cape Town newspaper, on Oct. 9 1918 about how some of the impatient soldiers were seen on the, “prowl in shoals about the Peninsula, notably in District Six.”

Within a day of the soldiers having left the camp on trains for home, influenza cases began to appear in a host of sites. These ranged from the staff at the camp and 7 Military Hospital and members of the transport unit which had ferried the returned soldiers from the harbour to fishermen and stevedores working in the docks.

But by then the trains were well on their way, carrying the newly-discharged soldiers all over South Africa. Even before they disembarked, some had begun to show symptoms of influenza. From as remote a district as Tsolo in the deep rural Transkei, the local magistrate was soon reporting that, since the arrival of a batch of soldiers, “sickness has become rife … in village and country and people are being brought in to local doctor by wagon and sledge loads.” (Phillips, ‘Plague, Pox and Pandemics’, p. 79)

Spanish flu had arrived, becoming more lethal by the day.

Inexorably infecting the entire country, railway station by railway station, it engulfed the whole of South Africa within weeks, during what contemporaries called ‘Black October’. It had been “allowed to run everywhere at once, like spilt quicksilver,” fulminated one magazine.



https://qz.com/africa/1818699/south-africa-bungled-spanish-flu-lessons-are-still-relevant/

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post=87681749:
Using your money to buy discomfort for yourself.

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post=87681743:
It is well......

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post=87681735:
Good for them over there

We want to believe that it is only projects such as this one that can curb farmer-herder clashes and security risks, improve farm yields, accelerate livestock production through adoption of modern best practices to improve the economic potentialities of smallholder farmers,.
The project will improve the capacity of our herdsmen to produce and process more milk and pave way for quality beef production.

God bless Kano State.
God bless Nigeria.

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Officialgarri:
But today is Monday. And this is morning.....

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post=87681719:
You are always welcome.

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post=87681670:
na dat wan go put food 4 ur table tomorrow right?
Dis is ao some people miss their blessings in life.
Chooking mouth for wetin wey no concern dem.
Pity.

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voltron14:
Shut up.

Show us where you reprimanded those that wished it on Buhari.

Hypocrite.

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post=87681539:
kingosytex, Nairalanders don finish u patapata today.
As in finish u dieeeee
Make we dare see u quote to say ur usual rubbish again, u go hear wen.
Na d obote and sissy wey dem call u funny pass.
Ndooooo

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post=87681503:
Here is a wise woman right here
Truer words have never been spoken.
This is deep.

We pray Atiku Jnr gets well soon.

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NGpatriot:
sad.

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NGpatriot:
First, CV was a joke and hoax, then they begged for a presidential speech like scared little babies, now after the speech, they forgot about speech and the positive and critical message in the speech to start clowning themselves and making up their own silly drama that doesn't exist in the speech.

Shebi i said these losers and anti-Nigerian elements don't care about Nigeria or any speech, all they care about is their usual retardedness and puerile nonsense.

Predictable clowns.

See..

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NGpatriot:
I wish the young man a speedy recovery and I'll keep him and other infected folks in my prayers.

I hope he irresponsible people, places of worship and other gathering places are paying attention.


God is in your heart, not inside any church building or in front of any foolish, ignorant and irresponsible pastor.

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voltron14:
And that's our problem?

His pronunciation?

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EdoPrince93:
Thanks bruv

bro this is a junk mail
i can't receive mail
drop your email let me mail you instead

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NGpatriot:
CovikDOT-19, First, CV was a joke and hoax, then they begged for a presidential speech like scared little babies, now after the speech, they forgot about speech and the positive and critical message in the speech to start clowning themselves and making up their own silly drama that doesn't exist in the speech.

Shebi i said these losers and anti-Nigerian elements don't care about Nigeria or any speech, all they care about is their usual retardedness and puerile nonsense.

Predictable losers..

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PassingShot:
Wrong statistics.

Northern Christians are actually 70% of the population there.

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post=87683423:
Egungun becareful na Express u dey go.....
Beware of your daily doses of GBAS-GBOS.......

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post=87683768:
Way to go.

We heard that is what most companies abroad are doing now,
All lives matter.

Same thing level 2 to 14 are gonna start doing henceforth also.

The world will win this war.
May God continue to protect all of and our family members.

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FrLukas:
Lock down Nigeria for 72 hours.

NOW!!!

This is the time to do that.

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post=87683482:
Will you shut up and make tour comment as we made ours without quoting anyone!
If you don't quote MANNA in a day, will you be sick?
Where are all your usual foul words on this forum?
Irritant.

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FrLukas:
This is the time to lock down Lagos and environs.

Declare a total curfew for 72 hrs to enable the government trace and track all potential contacts to these Corona virus carriers.

Please, someone close to government should tell them that o.

Otherwise, gobe for all of you.

Nigerians will never stay in one place unless there's curfew.

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post=87683501:
Another good move by another state .....

When is Bayelsa state going to close the Primary, Secondary and Tertiary institutions in the state?

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post=87679353:
Edoprince93, looking at your signature,
was when we realised that selling dead meats is your family business.
Only a loser and failure in life can go that low.

On Nairaland,
when you have been able to place some nuisances to their miserable place after lot of knocks on their heads like the kid, edoprince93 above,
They will never have the effrontery to quote your moniker directly to say rubbish anymore, even if your moniker is written in CAPITAL LETTERS!
You will only see them hiding behind themselves quoting you or codedly posting so your moniker won't see their stupidity and give them the usual GBAS-GBOS that reset their brains sharply!
(We have been noticing that on a weekly basis now!)
They are learning how to respect the rules of the forum by force by fire.
We told u , una go dey alright las las
Edoprince93 the kiddo, stop being a coward, okay?
You and your senior wailing zombies.
Fake, substandard trolls.
The taming of the shrew!



Thanks for replying that kid.
He has learnt his lessons.
He has eaten his words raw already
It is always good and refreshing to see that we still have reasonable youths like you on this forum.




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Atheist, who call God/Jehovah different kind of demeaning and unprintable names.
Learn to take your time to read before commenting,
So you won't sound so 'slow' next time and stop embarassing your fellow atheists online.

Now read the quote below for the 2nd time.......this time very slowly,
by doing so, you will get your answer.
[b]Internet is not by trolling on God!!
We pray you find him soon.
SMH!






He has learnt his lessons now, after making mouth everywhere.

Meanwhile,
Government should enforce the one we have going on here, especially on large gatherings.
It is for Nigerian's safety.
Sane Nigerians that is.

On a lighter mood amidst on this crazy happenings around the world........

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NGpatriot:
Silly ipobs, they cried wailed and begged for speech like sad puppies, but after speech, they turned into CovikDOT-19.

Poor ipobs.

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PassingShot:
Yeah, the greatest of all Nigerian terrorists.

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PassingShot:
This guy makes sense in this interview. Dude is unfortunately in a very wrong party.

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post=87683534:
Take note of these guidelines guys.
Your lives matter to all Nigerians .
Keep safe and sound.
God gat us all........that is if you believe in God tho....

More precautions in protecting yourselves and, your loved ones and family members.....

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