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superstar1: he will go to the caliphate of ISIL to achieve his dream full shariah and not in Nigeria.

he must have been fantasising on how to be beheading people and teaching children how to behead too, killing children and ra.ping women. The one they started in the north, landed them in Boko haram's enclave.

sirjohnson: Ok....Jonathan: Faking smiles and gestures since birth

A friend of mine calls him Badluck Ebola Jonathan

ibedun: Wetin concern you bloody immigrant, go an complain in Alaigbo.

Hijab all the way folks if you are in the land of your ancestors. I was born a "christian" but as you can see christianity is the biggest fraud of our time. Led by gun running blinging immoral idiots.

Hijab all the way. These our Yoruba leaders have to stop being nice or appeasing these jonny come latelys.

dapachez: Tortoise you can lie oh. When I wake up I will answer you. I have lived all my life in edo state and when I left 6 yrs ago it was a sorry sight but when I came in december I was held in awe at the transformation. How many paces have pipe borne water? I attended edo college in the 90's and there was never pipe borne water except the bore hole. I stayed at medical stores road and adolor college road the water situation was on and off that we had to use jerry cans to go look for water over long distances,till we moved to ubth quaters where there was nothing like tap water as the hospital had its bore hole supply. Does water board function well in benin? Go and take statistics a lot of houses have bore hole supply and provide for their neighbours.some sell while others give freely. The bore hole in my house at isihor supplies my neighbours who don't have the means to won one and its for free.In my street alone over 20 houses have bore holes. Go check out the road network the interlinking roads,go check out the way he is trying to fix five junction up. Did the previous administration do even a quater of what Oshiomole did in just four years and still counting. I aint holding forte for him but for God's sake when you see progress or something tangible been done,try and appreciate it. All these achievements aint a big deal cos its what the people deserve good roads,water and electricity. That said for the street lights I can't say much cos I don't go out at night and if I may ask has there ever been a time when street light worked in benin after oyegun era? The only street light I ever knew worked are the ones at ring road while the ugbowo uselu axis is always off and on
. From the end of your post I can see you are a pdp apologist nuff said

From Guinea, a country of 11 million people, the Ebola Virus Disease has spread to four other West African nations—Senegal, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leaone — killing more than 3,000 people in a matter of days. The latest destination for this near-genocide is Dallas, a small city in Texas, United States, where the first person diagnosed in the country has been quarantined alongside 80 other possible contacts.

The trip made by Thomas Eric Duncan, a former chauffeur, from Liberia to the United States on September 20 has now raised controversies on how far the virus can travel and may force countries to rethink the flight restriction policy against countries where the disease has been endemic.

Until September 17 when President Barrack Obama sent 3,000 troops to help with the transportation of medical equipments, the US been sitting on the sidelines.

Speaking at the US Centre for Disease Control, Atlanta, Obama announced a comprehensive plan, which involves the construction of 17 treatment centres with 100 bed facilities each. Some 500 health care workers will also be trained weekly.

“Faced with this outbreak, the world is looking to us, the United States, and it is a responsibility that we embrace. We are prepared to take leadership on this, to provide the type of capabilities that only America has and mobilize our resources in ways that only America can do,’’ Obama had said.

However, Duncan’s trip to the US has thrown up several issues. First is the inability of officials at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital to isolate Duncan on September 26, the day he first reported to the hospital.

Reacting to the development, a Consultant Gynecologist, Dr. Rotimi Akinola expressed hope that the situation would be brought under control soon. He however, remarked that the failure to isolate Duncan on his first visit to the hospital shows a natural weakness in any human system.

“There is no human system anywhere in the world that is above mistake. But they have an effective contract tracing mechanism and better record keeping. I am sure that system will rise to the occasion,’’ he enthused.

Texas hospital explains

A nurse at the Texas hospital was said to have asked Duncan about his recent travels while he was in the emergency room, and the patient was said to have told the nurse that he had been in Africa.

Executive Vice President of Texas Health Resources, Dr. Mark Lester confirmed this but that the information was not “fully communicated” to the medical team.

The man underwent basic blood tests, but not an Ebola screening, and was sent home with antibiotics, said Dr. Edward Goodman with Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.

Three days later, the man returned to the facility, where it was determined that he probably had Ebola. He was then isolated.

“The hospital followed all suggested CDC protocols at that time. Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas’ staff is thoroughly trained in infection control procedures and protocols,” the hospital said Wednesday.

The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, which has helped to lead the international response to Ebola, advises that all medical facilities should ask patients with symptoms consistent with Ebola for their travel history.

Duncan’s travel history “was not acted upon in an appropriate way,” said Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent.

“A nurse did ask the question and he did respond that he was in Liberia and that wasn’t transmitted to people who were in charge of his care,” Gupta said. “There’s no excuse for this.”

A U.S. official told CNN senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen that the situation was clearly “a screw-up.” A patient who shows up to a hospital with a fever and a history of travel to Liberia should be treated as an infection risk, the official said.

Asked repeatedly by Gupta whether the patient should have been tested for Ebola during his first visit to the hospital, CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden said officials were still looking at details about how the case was handled.

“We know that in busy emergency departments all over the country, people may not ask travel histories. I don’t know if that was done here,” Frieden said. “But we need to make sure that it is done going forward.”

Duncan is a 42-year-old Liberian national, according to his friend. This is Duncan’s first trip to the US, where he was visiting family and friends.

The close associate, who does not want to be identified because of the sensitivity of the case, contacted the CDC with concerns that the hospital was not moving quickly enough after Duncan’s second hospital visit.

The associate said Duncan is “all right” now, but is in pain and hasn’t eaten in a week.

He is in serious condition, the hospital told CNN. Neither the hospital nor government officials have identified Duncan by name.

Tracing contacts

A CDC team is in Dallas helping to find anyone Duncan may have come in contact with, Frieden said.

Once those people are identified, they will be monitored for 21 days — taking their temperatures twice a day — in cooperation with local and state health officials, Frieden said.

Some school-age children have been in contact with the Ebola patient, but the students haven’t exhibited symptoms of the deadly virus, authorities said.

Five students at four different schools came into contact with the man, Dallas Superintendent Mike Miles said.

The children are being monitored at home, and the schools they attended remain open, he said.

Paramedics who transported the patient to the hospital have been isolated, Rawlings’ chief of staff said. They have not shown symptoms of the disease so far, Frieden said.

The ambulance used to carry the patient was still in use for two days after the transport, city of Dallas spokeswoman Sana Syed said.

But she emphasised that the paramedics decontaminated the ambulance, as they do after every transport, according to national standards.

Pupils stay at home

Worries over Ebola kept some Dallas schoolchildren home Thursday after school officials identified five students who might have come into contact with the first person in the US to be diagnosed with the virus.

The Dallas Independent School District was still gathering morning attendance figures from four campuses where the affected students were in class earlier this week, spokesman Andre Riley said. Those students have shown no symptoms and are being monitored at home, where they are expected to remain for three weeks.

But there are already signs of parents taking no chances.

Yah Zuo left L.L. Hotchkiss Elementary on Thursday morning with her two children, including a six-year-old daughter. Zuo hoped to enrol her elsewhere.

Zuo is of Liberian origin and said she knows the family of Duncan.

“In situations like this, you cannot stay friends. You have to protect the ones you love,” ,” Zuo said.

She added, “This virus is not something you play with.”

It was not exactly clear how Duncan knew the students, but his sister said he had been visiting with family, including two nephews.

godofwar666: As we all know all OBAs are Coward

phemmyjohnson: Don't tell me you believe this criminal..

kheart: mtchewwwww never take a mad man word serious

mohims: Who is Oyedepo? Is he jet owner who makes money from his church members? Oh now I remember! He is the one who parades himself as a bishop. Who slapped an innocent young girl after he accused her of being a witch when he ought to have delivered her if she was actually one instead of slapping her. That man is a disgrace! God will judge him

bandiejay: Let me say the political krinku kanku of this open letters or if you like call the political open letters higi haga that as developed in Nigeria is now an odoriferous saga i quote "laz gagagu -a-gaga"

what is the font-ext holigo of this Open letters? I know it is emir-ably laden with a political and democratic thalidomide

I am waiting for patrick obahiagbon Open letter.

donphilopus: Edo For Life