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I knew from the inset that the US Marshall was lying.

Oh well....

Where is judge Judy when you need her?

Well, the Catholic Church, its doctrines and practices over its history don't hold the high ground over any religious belief or philosophy. I find it utterly fascinating (as well as the height of hypocrisy) that the Catholic Church--the people who brought you the inquisition, the Crusades, aiding and abetting, who were involved in genocide, and the covering-up, condoning, and active participation of centuries of sexual abuse of enumerable children and women have the audacity to "sue" to stop this group from just holding a "mass," a function which is unquestionably guaranteed them in the Constitution. I think the main reason that the Catholic Church is so upset about the holding of this meeting has less to do with the "holding of Satanic Mass," and considerably more to do with the "“parody” Roman Catholic liturgy."

The entire WORLD needs to unite and destroy these vile creatures. They are an infection on the face of humanity and every country is at risk.

Saddam doesn't seem so bad now does he? At least he kept all the these nut jobs under control. The U.S have left a weak Iraqi government that literally allowed Isis to roll right over them. Isis and their ideology is a far bigger threat to the western world than Saddam and his invisible WMD's ever was.

So I have been interacting with kiddos all this while. Now I know better.

The health authority in the emirate said in a statement carried by the Emirati state news agency WAM on Sunday evening that the 35-year-old woman was traveling from Nigeria to India for treatment of advanced metastatic cancer.

Did she died of Ebola or cancer?

Thanks for the info op.

If the FG should treat this EBOLA VIRUS with the same levity with which they had handled the Boko Haram insurgency at its inception, the repercussions will be worse than a nuclear holocaust.

They 'd better sit up and treat this epidemic as a matter of National security threat.

DRealGeesam1: I have lectures by 10pm.
Let me go and have my bathe

Make sure you do it with salt water Oloshi

BankuTilapia2: Excluding Ghana, kwasiaaa

Ghana is already shutting down #IMFBailoutThings, if Ebola should surface, which i don't pray for, then Ghana will be on the brink.

In other words he deliberately came to Nigeria to infect Nigerians with Ebola. The guy has wicked soul, may Amadioha visit him wherever he is.

Don't say...

I noticed it too, and now we know why nairaland was down the last time.

Anyone on the same thought process with me?

The last time nairaland went down APC lost an election, and now an impending election is just by the corner, and we are witnessing nairaland shutting down. Hope it's not what i'm thinking.

Ebola is a frightening, highly lethal virus — in the current outbreak in West Africa, about 60 percent of people infected with the pathogen have died. Although in the minority, some people do recover from infection.


Doctors don't know for certain who will survive Ebola, and there is no specific treatment or cure for the disease. But studies suggest there are some biological markers linked with a higher chance of surviving Ebola, experts say.

When a person becomes infected with Ebola, the virus depletes the body's immune cells, which defend against infection, said Derek Gatherer, a bioinformatics researcher at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom, who studies viral genetics and evolution. In particular, the Ebola virus depletes immune cells called CD4 and CD8 T lymphocytes, which are crucial to the function of the immune system, Gatherer said. [5 Things You Should Know About Ebola]

But if a person's immune system can stand up to this initial attack — meaning their immune cells are not as depleted in the first stages of infection — then studies suggest they are more likely to survive the disease.

"The patients that survive it best are the ones who don't get such a bad [immune] deficiency," Gatherer told Live Science.

But if the body is not able to fend off this attack, then the immune system becomes less able to regulate itself, Gatherer said. This means the immune system is more likely to run out of control and release a "storm" of inflammatory molecules, which cause tiny blood vessels to burst, leading in turn to a drop in blood pressure, multi-organ failure and eventually death.

The current Ebola outbreak — which is in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia — has infected at least 1,603 people, including 887 who have died, according to the World Health Organization, making it the largest outbreak in history.

Another marker linked with people's ability to survive Ebola is a gene called human leukocyte antigen-B, which makes a protein that is important in the immune system. A 2007 study found that people with certain versions of this gene, called B*07 and B*14, were more likely to survive Ebola, while people with other versions, called B*67 and B*15, were more likely to die.

Finally, some people may be resistant to Ebola infection entirely, if they have a mutation in a gene called NPC1. Studies show that, when researchers take cells from people with the NPC1 mutation and try to infect them with Ebola in a laboratory dish, these cells are resistant to the virus.

In European populations, about 1 in 300 to 1 in 400 people have this mutation, Gatherer said. But in some populations, this mutation is more common: in Nova Scotia, between 10 and 26 percent of people have this mutation, Gatherer said. But the frequency of this mutation in African populations is not known, he said.

However, because these studies on Ebola resistance were done in a lab, it's not known for certain if carriers of the NPC1 are truly resistant to Ebola.

Gatherer said that, hopefully, samples are being collected in the current outbreak so that researchers can conduct studies to better understand the virus and how to survive it.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/people-survive-ebola-233906237.html

wordcat: But the American doctor is stil alive. How come this Nigerian doctor died so quickly?

You have not be following the news, else you should have known why the American doctors didn't die and the Nigerian doctor died.

otokx: Greed and desperation.

You can say that again.

It's about time....let the wheel of disintegration be put in motion. Can't wait for that to happen.

Nigeria can be liken to a house built on quicksand by the treacherous imperialist and it's allies, the cesspit is fraud and the center can no longer hold.

There was a country!

Op is trying to lure people to his crappy blog.

This is the full story below.



No one wants to be the person who criticizes Oprah, but it’s time to call her out. She’s created some pretty great stuff. From reuniting families to recognizing heroes, Oprah has built a career on making the world a better (or at least a more hopeful) place.

For over 20 years, she has routinely inspired other celebrities to follow in her lead, donating millions of dollars to worthwhile charities around the world. All this time, she’s done so with finesse, grace and has built a brand that is one of the most respected of all time.

Oprah is an amazing lady, but this time she’s gone to far.

On Monday, June 23, the 10-part documentary series "operation change" premiered on OWN. According to the press release, the show “gives viewers unprecedented access to some of the world’s most dangerous, desolate and poverty-stricken places.” Sounds pretty cool.

Problem is, the story of these places isn’t being told by those most qualified to do so.

Rather, OWN has decided to ship some of America’s best-known faces including former President Bill Clinton, Donna Karan and Harry Connick, Jr. to bring “change” to far off places including Haiti, Colombia and Papua New Guinea. Behind all this are Bill & Tani Austin and their son, Steven Sawalich, from the Starkey Hearing Foundation.

So, yet again, the stories of those most in need are being told by those most unqualified to do so. Stealing stories is a developed world specialty. Why let people tell their own complicated history, when you can have an American celebrity sum it up in a matter of seconds?

Furthermore, why bother to dive into the political climate, environmental challenges and economic instability the people you are visiting are facing, when you are producing television for an audience that is switching to “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” whenever it becomes too mentally stimulating?

It’s not that the work that OWN, and by extension Oprah, is trying to do that is necessarily bad. Community centers are not the enemy and everyone deserves access to quality medical care.

It’s the way that the stories are told, and who is doing the telling, that is at fault. Sticking cameras in the face of Maasai leaders does not make a project more successful or sustainable.

Turning the lens on victims of sex trafficking does not better their situation. In short, creating television content for American viewing out of other people’s struggles is just another way of exploiting them. Take away their ability to tell their own story, and you’re adding insult to injury.

Oprah, I know that you mean well. I know that you want to do good and inspire others to follow your lead, but this isn’t the way to do it.

Flying into a country and delivering western civilization does not address the reasons for that community being where it is in the first place. Without facing those underlying issues, the ‘change’ you make won’t last.

The wells you build will go into disrepair, the clinics will once again run out of medications, and the children will return to working in the fields, more focused on survival than statistics.

You might counter my argument by saying something like, “But this will inspire more people to donate and get involved” and you might be right.

The problem I have with Operation Change, and this argument, is that yet again it puts the power and the focus on the wrong people.

If the show is about the Tanzanians, Indians or Malaysians you are trying to help, why are you thinking about how Americans react at all? Why aren’t you asking yourself whether the Maasai would be empowered by how you portrayed them?

If you insist on turning turmoil into television, put the cameras and the control in the hands of the people who most need to be empowered. Saving sex-trafficking victims, and then fetishizing their plight for an American television audience is not good TV, it’s poverty porn.

I dedicate this thread to kuylie and 299, they both have derailed this nice thread. It's a pity!

I don't know how to put this or how I can term it, but lemme put it in the simplest of form- My iPhone 4S's wi-fi can can't come on or should I say doesn't work? In other words I can't use a wi-fi connection on my iPhone 4S, cuz it doesn't even come on. It is permenently off. What might be the cause?