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covenantBabie: Ada Zion , jee nke oma. O ga adiri gi mma!

CAMNEWTON4PRES: Low self esteem
inferiority complex

I believe It's up to African men to stop dating the white wannabes black women , when we stop looking @ them they will change

happyme4life: u better go and hug that transformer on ur street because u shall yet see more of him till God knows when.

macnwaobi2: Is that an ash tray on the table?

gbaskiboy: na who tell u say na Bush meat dey cause am? Ur forefathers is dat nt what they eat during dir time and none of them died of Ebola? Why does it has to take sudden turn in our Era

cococandy: People no dey hear o
They can do anything for money even if it endangers the lives of others as well as theirs.
How can a sane person be smuggling bush meat into the country at a time like this?
Who knows what they serve us as suya.
No life loving person should buy suya at times like this o.

Ferisidowu: ... Lolz u talking of necrosis (programmed cell death)....... It doesn't make any sense bro.... Cells still regenerate so why do organisms die?

ndidibabe: If you are a christian and you read the Bible so hard, you will understand that all these vices characterizes the last day. They will only become history when christ take over.

barcanista: Our Traditional Practitioners said Bitter Kola, US kicked against it.

Our illustrous son who is a medic developed Nano Silver, USA called it pesticide.

To hell with USA!! We are not under their phucking Drugs Agency! In bitter Kola and Nano Silver we trust!!!!

#Africa has come of age
#Nigeria has come of Age

Bluetooth2: They sent it Liberia, spain, Sierra Leone. Why was Nigeria exempted ?

yerimastyle: Attack Ebola on a nanoscale
8 hours ago by Joe O'connell

The Ebola virus. Credit: Thinkstock
(Phys.org) —The Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa has claimed more than 900 lives since February and has infected thousands more. Countries such as Nigeria and Liberia have declared health emergencies, while the World Health Organization began a two-day meeting on Wednesday to discuss ways to battle the outbreak.

There is no known vaccine, treatment, or cure for Ebola, which is contracted through the bodily fluids of an infected person or animal. But that doesn't mean there's not hope. In fact, Chemical Engineering Chair Thomas Webster's lab is currently working on one possible solution for fighting Ebola and other deadly viruses: nanotechnology.

"It has been very hard to develop a vaccine or treatment for Ebola or similar viruses because they mutate so quickly," explained Webster, the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Nanomedicine. "In nanotechnology we turned our attention to developing nanoparticles that could be attached chemically to the viruses and stop them from spreading."

One particle that is showing great promise is gold. According to Webster, gold nanoparticles are currently being used to treat cancer. Infrared waves, he explained, heat up the gold nanoparticles, which, in turn, attack and destroy everything from viruses to cancer cells, but not healthy cells.

Recognizing that a larger surface area would lead to a quicker heat-up time, Webster's team created gold nanostars. "The star has a lot more surface area, so it can heat up much faster than a sphere can," Webster said. "And that greater surface area allows it to attack more viruses once they absorb to the particles." The problem the researchers face, however, is making sure the hot gold nanoparticles attack the virus or cancer cells rather than the healthy cells.

In addition to the gold nanostars, Webster's lab is also generating a nanoparticle that would serve as a "virus decoy," chemically attracting the virus to attack it rather than healthy cells.

While Webster's lab has been working in nanotechnology for about 15 years, it was not until recently that his lab started to explore the benefits of nanomedicine.

"We realized the potential," Webster said, noting that his student researchers use synthetic analogs that mimic viruses' structures. "There is obviously such a huge need right now for ways to treat Ebola and other viruses, and it's up to us to study and look at new and creative ways that traditional medicine really can't."

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thegoodjoehunt3: Map BioPharma have agreed to release their Experimental drug (ZMapp) to Africans, what has stopped our President and the Minister of Health from contacting Them for the Experimental drugs (Supporting them financially). This embarrassment with this Nano Silver issue shows the height of incompetency in our health Ministry.

Even if they wanted to test it, it should have been in secret with top health researchers. This Minister of Health must go. He has been a total failure.

ujustice: The federal government is not this stupid, or is it? If this is true then it is national terrorism. The doctors won't feel it, fg and its officials won't feel it, just the poor Nigerian masses. Very sad development. Oh how the founding fathers of Nigeria weep in the grave.

THUNDER4real: GEJ is on point, the society is not a grave yard where nothing happens except quietness. At least with this move he has set fire on this case group (doctors), let's see how these doctors react.
But come to think of it, These doctors are so heartless, how can you be on strike for more than one month........They want to kill many Nigerians and then conduct mass burial for them. Most Doctors in Nigeria are not suppose to study medicine, they are so after superiorty complex and always finding way to milk the poor people.

FG always renege on their promises. They are waiting to be paid promised allowances