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warrior01: Story that touches the heart. sobs.......
Notwithstanding, Nigerian doctors remains the most useless of them all. Trust me; am talking from experience.

Some are useless. But others are very worthwhile, CMD of First Consultant is a diamond (he's so good). Why do you think those doctors re still alive, 3 weeks after? It was doctors that said to govt "go to Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Edo state and get their medical staff to train Lagos public health workers. Those guys are trained in how to handle Lassa fever (which is very similar to ebola in symptoms and infection rate), so they will teach us sharply, because everyone is scared".
Even Irrua is not ready to handle ebola, the same govt that let measles and other viral vaccines finish in the country (so we are now at risk of contracting Yellow Fever, which is worse than ebola because it is mosquitoes that transfer it), the same govt cannot maintain isolation wards in either LUTH, Mainland or Irrua, that cannot fund Prof Iwu's research for years or even medical education, the same govt with the highest paid Senators in the world, and 9 private jets in the Presidential fleet, una dey support? If you knew what I knew! You would be staying home, praying in tears for 42 days to pass with no new infection.

If not for doctors, the Liberian called his Ambassador who then called his "big men in Naija govt" to release him from First Consultant. Only the doctors stood firm and said until his PCR test came back, no release. Else, we would be at 50 infected people by now.

This is NOT the time to say "No money or no morale", give doctors and nurses ANYTHING THEY WANT (short-term) and start shoring up the Medical health education in the country which is so poor longterm. Only LUTH can accurately diagnose Ebola, half the professors in uni have never used the machine. That is what doctors are fighting for. And hazard pay of N5000? Will you take even one bag of rice to his family once he gets infected?

I'm not a doctor but I've been so demoralised seeing FG's true nature about this outbreak. I and a friend were going to donate hand sanitisers in July to GH in Lagos, see how everyone who heard was thanking me. Ordinary hand sanitiser, we don't have in hospitals fighting a viral outbreak. LUTH is given millions and yet, their ECG machine will catch fire when patient is inside and your president will send his wife to Germany for months for treatment rather than subject her to what he subjects you to. And you support him. No accountablilty or responsibility from govt, so the board too, loots.

Osanobua, it is truly the rich who can afford to leave this country that are fighting for good governance. GEJ till America pities Nigeria and sends 10 bottles of Zmapp that una will fight over, out of fear and desperation

dotuna3: I think Mr president decision is as a result of the present pressure he has with the health sector especially with the Ebola virus. I think the doctors also shld help. I don't think with dis out break our doctors shld be on strike at all. I mean for what reason would they go on strike wen they knw hw challenging this Ebola virus is.

The doctors shld just forget this strike issue. Save us of Ebola den we Nigerians we fight for your right for you if Mr president refuse. Is it after the Ebola issue die down den u wanna surface? Indeed u earn no respect and diginity again from we Nigerians. Pls do what is right at the right time.No time to check time

LASUTH had an Ebola scare on Monday, someone even created a thread about it. Do you know what your govt did?


THEY GAVE THE WHOLE OF LASUTH ONLY 3 BIOHAZARD SUITS TO USE.

For a teaching hospital....with staff of over 300....in a medical crisis that kills medical staff more than random people on the road...

YOU ARE SUPPORTING THAT?!!

Forget having to travel to India for treatment, India will lock its borders to Nigeria (as will several countries) once this virus gets out of hand. Don't you realise that out of all the health workes who met the Liberians, the doctors took the most precaution, treated themselves and quarantined early, and are surviving?? The $8.1mil GEJ shouted he has shared for Virus outbreak, didn't they send only $1mil to Lagos (the only state with confirmed cases got the least). Abi no be LASG who immediately declared each isolation ward cost N20mil?? Profit-in-disaster No doctor wants to resume as they haven't been provided with hazmat suits, nurses in a lot of hospitals are codedly turning away patients who have any fever symptoms.

GEJ till when Nigerians have been wiped out to too few to complain about bad governance , because you truly don't deserve better

RIP my dear.

Feeding is major contact and this is our fault: even on the day the Liberian passed away, nurses at GH Lagos Island were more concerned with ileya rice (they were discussing if LASG would share this year). In May, when I read about this outbreak and was washing hands and using hand sanitiser, almost no nurse in Nigeria was using latex gloves to change IV or give injections (except for Nig Naval H Ojo).

Please this is real. Wash your hands, disinfect your homes. Don't repeat clothes, wash them daily and avoid contact with people. A lot of Liberians lived in denial and said "no" to help/ran away to native doctors and even attacked hospital staff. Now it's a disaster over there.

She's a victim. The state govt has failed in providing even free primary education and the FG failed in not insisting on a minimum marital age of 16 (irrespective of whom you worship). If all their womenfolk were delighted with marrying elderly men (they're usually sold to pay debts), why is there anecdoctal evidence of 4 more wives attempting to poison their husbands, due to the support this child is getting?

The child was given 3 choices (can't people read??) Of men to marry and she picked this one. That's probably what happened to her sisters and her peers. So it was bound to be a her lot in life (because a bunch of people want to keep the status quo and maintain their superiority and idiots who suffer it, will tell you "it is our tradition/religion", I've met countless Northerners from wealthy homes, their own daughters marry at 18 or 21).

I don't support murder, she should be tried as a juvenile and should serve time for what she did. And muslim brethen, enough is enough: change marital age to 16. VVF, polio, unemployment and more is plaguing the North. Stop the wahala now

One of our gatemen did this (he thought to his mind he was a millionaire because of his meagre salary) and went to buy himself a little girl as bride. The child eventually ran away from him. So now, most of his peers forbid their wives from leaving their shed, since they don't want them forming attachments or knowing the lay of the town (so as to plan running away) till they've got kids to tie them down.

50calibre: Of course they don't like their hair, isn't it obvious? If you like you natural hair, I see no reason why you should wear series fake weave. Once the one they're wearing begins to look old, they go get another one.

To be honest with you, I can't stand weaves, I've had girlfriends and relatives who fix that thing, and they all know how I feel about it. You want to wear fake weaves like drag queen, fine but don't ask me about it, expect no compliments from me and don't tell me anything about it as I don't want to hear.

Nothing more off putting like trying to run your hands through a woman's hair & she says no! no!! no!!! I had this fake hair fixed today, the funniest part is they care for the hair like it's their own, they buy these nets and at night wrap it up with the net. In the morning they comb the hair and id be like wtf is this?

I want to be able to run my fingers through a woman's natural hair. You can run your fingers through an Asian, Caucasian, Middle Eastern woman's hair and you will feel right down to the scalp but that of a black woman, you feel tight knots and ropes used to affix the fake hair. So annoying

First of all, I've got natural hair. As in, no relaxer (my choice). And I can speak from the perspective of having all 3 in the past.

Black men and Black women are the problem. Yes. You have just said words which would make a black woman race to buy a weave.

You want to run your fingers through a woman's hair, that means you don't appreciate African hair texture. Our hair is thick and full and spirally, so, fingers idly running through it tangles it. Society has deemed, however, that smooth, straight hair is beautiful, and you as a man have declared "I can run my fingers through Asian, Caucasian Middle Eastern women's hair", happily ignoring the fact that your grandma didn't have hair like that (and you thought she was a wonderful woman), your sisters and mum didn't have hair like that (and you love them). You're in denial of your own hair texture (can you run your fingers through your afro?)

It's the same thought process I see with bleaching: men "hate" it but think fair-skinned girls are "prettier than dark skinned ones" or that "their skin looks cleaner than dark-skinned ones".

Hypocrisy is very subtle, isn't it?

Women, please listen to me: if you carry your natural hair from childhood, celebrate it, you won't be complaining how hard it is to maintain. I've lived on 3 continents and had non-blacks love my hair. But it was for a temporary feel (like the way we dream of being taller, having bigger bums etc), none was spending thousands of dollars to ever look like a black woman. South-Eastern women (Bengals and Indians) want to look lighter, Chinese girls wish they had upper eyelid folds that were bigger.


Because Society has conditioned us to believe straight hair and light skin is beautiful.

Now excuse me, I'm off to go find a man who thinks really curly afro hair is beautiful

Na wa o.

The Liberian man lied and said he had malaria and called well-connected Nigerians (including the Ambassador), who ordered the First Consultant hospital to release him. The doctors refused, so he started misbehaving till he was too sick (he pulled out his drip and peed on the floor at the staff. The matron who went in with no gloves and cotton wool, to stop the bleeding, was the one who died). Another nurse gave him a bath and helped him with his food. Most of the nurses didn't give him extended assisted care.

This is great news. Alright, clinical trials, both in Africa and abroad.

We need people to fund it. Funding it now means money for you in the future, once the drug is on the market. This is how big Pharma companies start.

Great news.

If detected early and treated, the disease can be managed, not cured (they usually treat it with blood infusions and intravenous solutions, to regulate the organs). However, most of the nurses (who didnt take enough precautions to protect themselves whilst treating the Liberian), turned down immediate quarantine (the doctors didn't). Thats why they waited till symptoms started and then it's usually much harder to manage.

Liberia getting the cure before us is a good thing, of the 3 countries badly affected, they have the most wherewithal to travel and spread it internationally. Nigeria right now hasn't reached epidemic stage. If your roof is leaking, will you focus on bailing the water out first or stopping the leak, so as to reduce the amount of water you bail? Common Sense.

and btw, the US doesn't really care about your homosexuality laws (they're still giving visas to Nigeria and still doing business, right). What they don't like is your govt and your politicians, who is putting the country at risk of splitting up (which would require a Humanitarian effort and money and supplies to "save dem poor Africans, as usual" much more than what they give Sudan). Obama's foreign policy is to stay out of other countries' internal wahala, he said so dring his first campaign after the debacle of Afghanistan and Iraq. He's only arming Syrian rebels now that ISIS is conquering territory and recruiting westernised muslims.

Thank God for healing but more importantly, insist on better governance. And please give credit to LASG, I don't like Fashola but I know what he ordered his people to do to curb this, whilst the billions from FG haven't yet been sent. The Min of Health is parroting the news the State Commissioner gives him. The jingles you heard about Ebola on the radio was done by LASG, quaranting of secondary contacts was done by LASG, pickup of infected contacts, by LASG. MMIA Immigration still don't know what to do if they see a possible case (they hadn't been taught as of last week) Most of the nurses turned down being quarantined. So kudos to Fashola and his people.

Got everything I said?

GenBuhari: [size=28pt]See what I said that the whole thing is propaganda?

Nobody can give me list of the 10 confirmed cases[/size]

Some of us know the name of one, you mor.on. Why not go to Yaba and hug some of the patients?

I'm trying to raise fund so we can make sure 100 packs of latex gloves go out to each GH this week and increase the amount to hopefully 1000. Also looking for good hand sanitisers with 60% alcohol (beginning to see cheap stuff from Dubai and China). If not, we provide methyl spirit.

I'll need some engineers to look at the construction of Autoclave machines and figure out if they can rig a local one. We need to incinerate all disposables that healthcare workers use.

For the rest of us, do outpatient treatment at hospitals. Insist on your nurses and doctors using gloves, even if it's to check your temperature (see why you should buy some for them??), protect yourselves.

We also need to start Blood drives, as I'm hearing they're managing our patients in this outbreak the same way they manage Hep B patients (blood transfusions, keeping the immune system strong, Vit K). So who knows any reputable health clinic who does blood donations?

For the rest of us, get bleach and disinfect your homes. Educate everyone to bath after public places. Feel free to pressure yourself and your neighbours and your churches to donate food and water to Mainland Hospital, Yaba (the isolation wards are there). Let us take care of those at the forefront of this "conflict"

#Defcon1ModeActivated

Nurses and doctors are the ones most susceptible to spreading the disease. A pack of latex gloves (100 pieces) cost N1,000 at a medical supply store. Can we support our brave nurses and doctors by buying and donating a pack each? If they are safe, we are safe.

I've been following this outbreak in West Africa since May. In May, my very learned boss laughed at me for using hand sanitiser, then laughed at me for washing hands. Now, she bought a pack of latex gloves and face-masks for her self, 2 days ago. And people still don't believe in the virus.

But I noticed a more alarming trend: Nigerians are not deep thinkers or planners of the future, or people who look at their past.

I've been so worried about this Ebola outbreak, and my elderly mother said something today: this is not the first viral outbreak which has ravaged my country. I looked it up online and to my horror, I discovered that she was part of the generation who lived through 2 deadly outbreaks: Smallpox and Yellow Fever. If you think Ebola is scary, Smallpox is airborne, Yellow Fever was transferred by the bite of a mosquito. Gods were carved by our ancestors, to appease those diseases (Sopona was the yoruba god of Smallpox).

Over 65 years later, NOT ONE AFRICAN GOVERNMENT HAS FUNDED RESEARCH ON ANYTHING. Foreigners found the vaccine and made it cheap for us. During those decades, we discovered oil and now, we pound ourselves on the chest and roar "Giant of Africa". More like "Cockroach of the World".

Listen, I don't care who the hell "infected" Africans with this virus (38 years and 7 months, we didn't discover a cure). I'm ashamed to belong to a people who DON'T LEARN FROM THE PAST, DON'T PLAN THEIR FUTURE AND ARE CONFIDENT IN THEIR IGNORANCE AND FOOLISHNESS.

In 1966, another smallpox outbreak occurred because a religious group refused vaccination. And I'm hearing the same freaking stup.idity bleated about. People hid from being contained and isolated. Sound familiar?

In 2014, millions of people bathed with salt and water. Almost none of them bothered to take the time to read the free report on the Zaire 1976 Ebola outbreak, and come up with reasonable solutions (I found out from there that we need Methyl Alcohol 91% and Sodium Hydrochlorite, known as Bleach, to disinfect everywhere. And burn disposables and contain and isolate and do assisted nursing, from afar, best done by medical staff).

I keep seeing and hearing ignorant nonsense spewed. And everyone is suspicious of the White Man. Yet you are "all more educated than those villagers".

For once, let us keep ourselves clean. Let us voluntarily start research, let those who cannot research fight for governments who will fund it. Let others donate medical supplies (I started discussing with doctors about donating hand sanitisers to LASG hospitals 3 weeks ago before Ebola came here, all were hailing me as a "godsend". Please support my efforts and those of my friend, who lost his dad at LUTH). Let us demand accountability from EVERY SINGLE PERSON (DO YOUR PART AND PAY FOR A PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM, FREE FOR ALL, WITH SOAP PROVIDED). Teach African History in school, so everyone knows what we went through before and how we beat it. And how to apply those solutions to future problems (such as a viral outbreak from another country, we should have closed our borders since).

This year, Nigeria lost children to diseases which could have been prevented by vaccines. Those vaccines are finished, since February. When an outbreak occurs, some animals in government will then send money and declare emergency and create a panel. When it would have been cheaper to treat the problem MONTHS AGO. DO NOT VOTE FOR ANYONE WHO ONLY PROMISES YOU GOOD ROADS AND ELECTRICITY IN A TV JINGLE, LET THE POLITICIAN TELL YOU HIS DETAILED PLANS FOR HEALTHCARE, EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH. Stop selling your birthright for N2,500 worth of rice. And for you tribalists, an outbreak in any part of the country affects you. Stop saying "na their problem".

Learn from the mistakes of the past, stop these daft conspiracy theories and change our future. We've been doing the same foolish behaviour since 1966 and haven't changed once.

My mum insists on always using the smallest holed grater in the kitchen for the coconut. Last year, when I vexed and used a bigger grater, she shouted that the milk won't come out, that I've spoiled it. And made me pound the grated coconut till it was smaller.

I really hate coconut rice. But I'll try that trick of keeping undilute coconut milk to add once the rice is boiled.

eaglechild: I cannot access the mail you sent.

If you reply it, I can send you an email.

Idrismusty97: Africa should be ready to take the wheel,The super powers are falling......

The same Africa that in 38 yrs and 8 months, can't even get enough medical supplies, doctors, nurses, pharmacists and medical staff and even ordinary HAZMAT suit, to treat any disease by themselves, talkless of even funding research lab to even treat Malaria, talkless of Ebola? That's who's going to take over as a super-power?

Can I have what you're smoking? I need to dream of myself as Bill Gates or Oprah.

767 is Lagos State Emergency number, it is working. I am urging those who had contact with these our brave nurses and medical staff, to call them. Please call right now. Call 767, the relevant authorities will be waiting for you.

The rest of us, please don't call that number unless there's an emergency.

eaglechild: Please stop speculating rubbish.
There running is NOT justified by your factless epistle.

Confirmed and unconfirmed cases are ALWAYS separated and each unconfirmed case is treated individually.

It is a very basic rule in public health and the cases are being managed by public health consultants in conjuction with the WHO and CDC.

Why do people like making irritating speculations that bias the public.
And people are already happy with your funny ideas.

Can you assure us that is the case in Nigeria? Are you in contact with anyone at the hospital in Yaba, who can assure us that yes, 7 infected individuals are isolated separately, not sharing the same toilet or the toilet being disinfected after each use, that they are being taken care of? Please confirm that, then these innocent people will be handed over to the appropriate authorities.

nyamburambuthia: Hallo all. Just wondering, what is there in Jamaican Black Castor Oil that is missing in our African castor oil? Well, it's not that am against it (actually I've got a bottle of it) but when I purchased the local one, I noticed they all work the same. Difference is their costs - JBCO is just too expensive!!
Anyways, I would recommend the castor oil to anyone with natural hair or transitioning from relaxed to natural hair. This product is amazing! If it's smell is a turn-off, then you can mix it with other oils like olive or coconut oil.
Another thing, has anyone tried to transition to natural for more than 6 months without cutting the split ends? Are they really are a bother or sistas do it because almost everyone else does it? Please let me know. Thanks in advance.
Nyams

Hi, please where did you get African Castor oil? The only one I see is in the pharmacy.

We have very wealthy Nigerians here. We need proper sanitation for medical staff. They need autoclave machines and something (a makeshift incinerator close to the ward, we can use an oil drum) to burn disposable gloves and gowns. And let us provide these gowns. Also, I'm reading a report on the Zaire outbreak and they stated Dettol (Chloroxylenol) doesn't have antiviral properties nd has a low antibacterial spectrum. I got this online

SUSCEPTIBILITY TO DISINFECTANTS: Ebola virus is susceptible to sodium hypochlorite, lipid solvents, phenolic disinfectants, peracetic acid, methyl alcohol, ether, sodium deoxycholate, 2% glutaraldehyde, 0.25% Triton X-100, β-propiolactone, 3% acetic acid (pH 2.5), formaldehyde and paraformaldehyde, and detergents such as SDS (20, 21, 31-34).

Sodium Hypochlorite is Bleach ( I bought the HYPO brand) and Methyl Alcohol is the regular type (I use minimum 90% strength).

Here is the link. Medical staff, be aware and use latex gloves for ALL initial patient treatment, even if you're taking a temperature.

http://www.itg.be/internet/ebola/ebola-30.htm

LOVE THIS. I will support you guys. Good luck!

For the rest of us, stop panicking.

1. Disinfect your home. A dilute solution of Bleach should be used to clean doors, handles, the fridge handle and the home. You can make people take their shoes outside your home.

2. Put water systems publicly. There should be water systems (drums or taps) with free handwash or free soap. Everyone should have access to be able to clean themselves. At my shop, I go down from time to time to ask the staff to wash their hands. Today, I announced it to even customers and showed them a thread on NL. They all went one by one, and washed hands.

3. Disinfect your cabs. Seriously, get some dilute bleach in a bottle. Offer it free to a cab man, as well as household cleaning gloves. Tell him to wipe his cab down. Today, I sprayed 90% Isoprophyl Alcohol in my taxi. The cab driver was grateful and he wasn't literate, he asked me to please write down all he needed to keep himself safe (yes, he also bathed with salt this morning )

4. Avoild public areas unless necessary and bath after it. You don't need to attend 10 weddings tomorrow (saturday), stay home. We are not clean people, so you have to be responsible and limit contact with people. Our public transport can put you sitting beside a healthworker or a family member of an infected person, who may just be manifesting symptoms or worse, STAYING HOME REFUSING TO BE QUARANTINED.

5. If someone looks like they have malaria or typhoid, even if na your mama TAKE HER TO THE HOSPITAL TO GET TESTED. Carry all her supplies, including her bedsheet.

6. Eat well, eat healthy, not "madam, 5 wraps of semo with Afang soup, and assorted meats". Eat fruits, take vitamin supplements, we're even drinking Swedish Bitters (we always have) to help regulate our liver and build our immune system. Swedish Bitters doesn't cure ebola, for pete's sake don't start doing anything stupid..... and it is like Bitter Kola, regulates your insides so as to keep you healthy.

7. Latex gloves and a face mask if you're really scared (like me ) and you take public transport. They cost N800 for 100 pairs at a medical supply store, and once you get home, WASH.

8. YES, YOU SHOULD BATHE EVERY MORNING AND EVENING. I saw a homeless man even washing his hands today (very proud of him). If you like, you can add salt to it


9. For those who live with a health worker (like me), limit contact with them. Once they are working fulltime at a hospital, discuss with them if you can move out. Health workers are more prone to falling ill and spreading the disease. Even better, let's all donate money to the Ministry of Health, to rent an apartment close by to the hospital isolating patients, at Yaba. They need to rest. Seriously, abeg that money will save millions, do you really wanna wait for your govt?

10. Moving forward, please vote for people who can tell you and EXPLAIN CLEARLY THEIR PLANS FOR EDUCATION AND HEALTHCARE. We had 38 years and at least 6 months to prepare for this outbreak, yet NOT ONE MINISTER OF HEALTH DID ANYTHING, NO MINISTER OF EDUCATION ASKED THAT GOVT FUND RESEARCH LABORATORIES, NOTHING HAPPENED. No more bags of rice, no more voting because he's from your tribe. Let this issue in Nigeria show you how important a good government is. We have to stop providing everything for ourselves, yet defending those that steal from us. Enough is Enough.


STOP BLAMING AMERICA. Asia and the Middle East took care of themselves when they had viral outbreaks, Africans are whining and crying like babies, insulting people and at the same time demanding their help. I don't care who infected us or who brought it in, use your energy to protect yourself and your family and your neighbour! Enough with the freaking conspiracy theories, we had 38 years and 6 months, we were NOT PREPARED, THIS IS OUR FAULT.

WE CAN MAKE IT, WE CAN SURVIVE THIS, STAY CALM.

mamarika: [font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font][b][/b]I sincerely pray that God will help this situation,the truth is Nigeria does not have what it takes curb this disease "I mean personnel Απϑ facilities"
The first Nigerian to die of this disease"EBOLA"in Nigeria,A NURSE working with first consultant hospital obalende,lagos happens to be a close friend's Απϑ colleague's Aunty.
ℓ̊ must tell you,forget all these propaganda Απϑ fake hopes we keep getting on the media from the minister of health Απϑ all "they are all fairy tales"
That nurse is an elderly woman,a widow,she has four kids.the first son is on youth service outside Lagos,while the other three lives there with her in Lagos.the woman started having fever on Sunday with her kids in the same housee.they called Their hospital ℓ̊ mean where the nurse works Απϑ they told them τ̅☺ isolate her that WHO persons will come pick her up that they Ƌ̲яε̲̣̣̣̥ suspecting "Ebola"as the female doctor she worked with was already ill Απϑ diagnosed of Ebola.
They came on to her residence Απϑ picked her up with an ambulance,Απϑ on Tuesday night they got a message that the woman was dead.cos that was the first thing ♍Ɣ friend told ♍ε̲̣̣̣̥ on Wednesday morning.
Now the immediate younger brother of this woman, a young ma,married with a wife Απϑ kid ,also had contacts with his late sister plus the 3kids ,ℓ̊ have left out Their neighbours.who may have also had contact too.
The younger brother who had contact with her said that the WHO representatives gave some numbers τ̅☺ get in touch with them after carrying the late nurse, the young man said he has called all the numbers,@least so that himself Απϑ her 3kids will be kept under surveillance as they had contact when she was already manifesting,but № way,all the mumbers Ƌ̲яε̲̣̣̣̥ not available one which is available,№ picking.
As ℓ̊ speak the man Απϑ the 3kids Ƌ̲яε̲̣̣̣̥ lodged in a hotel there in lag (will not mention)the hotel name in a bid τ̅☺ isolate themselves from family members)for @least 30 days as incubation period is 21days Max.this is hotel lodge is never the right thing to do ℓ̊ told ♍Ɣ friend,cos if truly ,they contacted the virus ,then people serving in the hotel arnt safe Απϑ they go home too.but the family soooooo confused more so they havnt gotten the w.h.o representatives on fone !
But we keep hearing all the contacts Ƌ̲яε̲̣̣̣̥ isolated Απϑ under quarantine!!!we Ƌ̲яε̲̣̣̣̥ really in a big mess!ℓ̊ must say ,ℓ̊ pray God helps...only him can.

Everyone, please stop fighting and focus on this person's report of possible infected people.

Please, send an email to me, with their contact. I'll get the right people on the phone. Let them stay where they are (it would have been better if they had stayed in their home, but DON'T LET THEM LEAVE THE HOTEL. They have to carry their bedsheet and everything they used at the hotel (mattress must be burnt). If money is the issue, once WHO has picked them up, us know. Call 080-EBOLAHELP right now.

cocospice: ^^^ are u for real? Guy carry gala enter hold up go sell, it will fetch yu legal and genuine cash

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I'm about to try the mayo dc treatment: I got a jar of Jago mayo, honey, olive oil, castor oil, shea butter and will add an egg. I hear it can get very messy sha. Still learning about finger-detangling.

Currently tried out some Dudu Osun on my braids to wash them out, I've heard mixed reports (that is the ish or that is very drying). Will let y'all know.

I think he's joking. If he tested positive, the hospital won't let him go and the mor.on will be took sick and ill to be typing, he would be collapsing, pooing and be unable to even lie down on a bed

For anyone worried about themselves, call 080-EBOLAHELP if you feel like you're having malaria, or go to the hospital (alone! and covered in gloves and sanitary wear).

bushdoc9919: When will we Africans learn from our mistakes.?

Stop blaming others for mistakes you can correct yourself.

Guy, you're making too much sense. Abeg stop, their brains can't handle it.

These people screaming conspiracy will, once MSF and foreign doctors come, carry cutlass and chase them out of their vicinity, saying they're the ones spreading the disease. Then pray to God for healing and complain bitterly that America has not sent the cure down.
Without taking precautions of washing or avoiding any sick person, infact hiding sick relatives.

The sheer level of stu.pidity is mind-boggling.

When people were singing "halleluyah, America make the cure fast" and I was telling them that drug aint reaching Africa till next mid-year (they must secure for their own consumption and others before sending to people who will borrow money from them, to pay them for it), una dey vex at me.

They can't send it because it was experimental and if they send it and Africans take it and have side effects, una go dey foam at the mouth and scream "testing on the poor black man", they haven't produced enough vials (they must ensure they have millions for themselves to treat themselves first).

What about Labaran Maku, who said in March that Nigeria had gear and medicine should this happen? Why has your president not fired him for lying to us? Or LASG who told us the Liberian was quarantined from the airport (another lie)?

Look to yourselves, Africa. No-one is going to save you. They owe you nothing. You had 38 yrs to do something, now you're blaming them for not aiding you. That's like a 40yr old man complaining his parents aren't helping him find a job.

Leopantro: For what? On channelsTv over the weekend, when the commissioner was asked how isolation was to be done he said the patients were given thermometers to check their temperatures themselves and told to stay at home, plus to eat good food. Do toy know how difficult it is to keep someone against his or her will for how many days, against their will? The two that's I know have run away from Lagos. Every one is afraid.

For the love of God and please protect us, call 080-EBOLAHELP and tell them where they are. don't let selfishness kill tens of thousands. Abeg, please, we are in danger. Call and tell the authorities where they are. Each they those people hide, they infect more.

Your govt is only quarantining those that show symptoms of Ebola, which means that they could spread the disease before being quarantined. Doctors are refusing to work with the quarantined patients because of fear (understandable). So we Nigerians have to protect ourselves.

BE PROACTIVE.

A pair of disposable gloves cost N50. Buy a pack.
A face mask costs N80. Buy a pack
A bottle of bleach cost N260. Get 5 bottles
A bottle of handwash cost N300 or a bar of Dettol soap cost N120 or any soap is N80 minimum.
A flask should be carried with water at all times to wash hands.
Buy a raincoat, to wear outdoors to cover your clothing. Use duct-tape to seal the edges. Wear covered plastic shoes (rainboot or the cheap one which you can clean with bleach).

Create a shed outside your home, any family member/visitors must wash up before entering your home and change their clothes.

Does this sound extreme? Yes! Did it take one man to die on our soil 2 weeks ago, for 2 people to contract Ebola and 6 people to be suspected infected? Yes! Do you trust your govt to accurately and efficiently manage this disease? Do you think enough vaccines and cures will be made by the end of August, enough to treat 100 million Nigerians, talk less of Liberians, Sierra Leonians and Guineans? Do you think the UK, US and more won't try and buy most of it, to treat themselves first before sending out to Africa? Do you want to keep wailing and asking God to save you instead of praying and doing something about it?

The answer is upto you.

donnypool: Don't get me wrong, you know your family member well to know they are not infected so no need for gloves. But for the public, use gloves man, though am not in Nigeria, but yes if i am atm, i will certainly avoid over crowded place and probably get gloves. I have just one life and i'm going to protect it.

WRONG! People are taking less precautions with their family members and friends, THAT's WHY IT IS SPREADING. I live with doctors, who have told me to use diluted bleach to disinfect the doors inside and outside the house daily. if NMA recalls them, we are to be moved to another relative's home to minise contact with them. Strangers outside are scary but it is family and friends that will bring the disease to you. BE WARNED. TAKE PRECAUTION WITH EVEN YOUR KIDS, create a shed where even your father can bathe outside and keep his clothes, before entering his home. A Liberian woman did that to her family and kept her kids at home since May. They are all still safe.

evegran: It is disappointing having Donald suggest this. I mean it is the US, they can hardly ever go wrong with testing visitors from other countries (specifically-West Africa) for the virus before allowing them into the US. I get the Drs are also at risk, but even the Drs can prepare themselves properly for this exercise. Stopping flights from West Africa is simply unnecessary, he's being dramatic now-probably nursing future political plans even. I doubt the US government will agree to his suggestion tho.

Human testing for a vaccine will start in the US in September and won't be ready till next year, and not in large enough doses. Last week, some Nigerians accurately predicted this and started sending their families on "holiday" out of the country. The US will soon start screening West African flights. No-one in the world can develop a vaccine or cure in large amounts, even if millions of dollars are thrown at it. They would require a lot of labs to work on it at the same time, to harvest enough doses just to treat Americans, talkless of Africans. Donald Trump is right, and in the US, UK and other countries (Singapore turned back 3 Nigerian students), people are agreeing with him. No country wants to export this.

Nigeria should have closed her borders since May. We didn't, we were careless and 2 weeks after the first patient died, we have 6 cases.

Your govt didn't even immediately quarantine the health workers who treated the Liberian, they monitored them on the phone. So their families have been exposed.

Typical, typical of Africans. It is never our fault, it is someone else's problem, they should come and save us, while we hurl insults at them.

Even if Ebola was developed by Americans, 38 years after it was discovered in Congo, NOT ONE African govt had funded research on it, not one single one. Or was the CIA forbidding you from doing research, nope, your greed, selfishness, ineptitude and corruption stopped any single Minister of Health from doing anything.

The US and some British labs developed a cure because they had the foresight to think if those countries were attacked with a bio-terrorist weapon, they will make money selling the cure to the Dept. Of Defense (they are the ones now funding ZMapp). Anyone who has taken "the stop" in Virginia, and worked there knows what I'm talking about.

The big Malaria research hospital in Gambia (where they've done research on viruses), is it sponsored by an African govt? NOPE! The place is filled with Indians, Europeans and Nigerian doctors are running there daily, your govt cannot even go and say "take this money, so my country has a stake in your findings". Mbah, we are waiting for WHO and US aid.

Then we will insult them, and at the same time, ask them to develop a cure and vaccine quickly. Since January, has your govt even bothered to sensitise us about Ebola, monitor flights from hotzones or even ask WHO or MSF to conduct clinical trials with whatever compound they think is in Bitter Kola, that Maurice Iwu wrote about years ago, that purports to treat Ebola? NOPE! (Did they even try to ask, or just gave excuse "you know those people are sponsored by US firms". We're now doing medicine after death.

The world owes Africa NOTHING and will keep treating you like 2nd-class citizens until you start taking responsibility for yourselves. We don't have money to fund research, yet our presidential fleet has 9 private jets and our lawmakers are better paid than more-developed countries. Abegi!!