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wrench: Anambra making progress against Kidnapping since 1808and you commenting irrelevantly since 1800 BC 11 Likes |
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Hmm.....again?.............many problem at a go!!! Only God will save us from these man made afflicted problems!! 2 Likes |
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What of those that had slept ad infinitum?.....can someone come with the number of hours? |
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Hmm....ok ooo |
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Nawaoooo.........you need grace to know a quality woman or lady |
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God can never give us what will kill us, this Ebola of a thing is from the pit of hell and should be treated as an enemy of light..........thanks op@very concise information |
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Wow!!!.....I still believe in Naija, one day we go get uninterrupted power supply!!! 2 Likes |
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Lovely pics!!!....so we made it to the front page?.........let me prophesy that no Ebola will attack you and your family members in Jesus Name, Amen!!!! 12 Likes |
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The Lord is my shepherd!!!!!!!! |
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Lols...nobody wan die but Dem wan go heaven!!!! |
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She's making a salient point!!!! |
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Lols.....reminds me of the very good old days!!!! |
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The Bible said and I quote "when these things happens, know that the end is nigh".....Am under the shadow of the Almighty!!! |
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Broder?......I give up!!!! 1 Like |
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Chai !! |
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Lorlaahlozz: swaggerlicious liarlols |
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Lols!....I don't know where to start shaa, but am a kind of guy that doesn't really do much in times of talking rather girls do!....#always their dream guy# |
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Still learning shaa....wish I could command flawless grammar, guess it would've propelled me to cloud nine!! |
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Jamean:really?......I thought am the only one ooo!!! |
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Professor John Ashton accuses pharmaceutical industry of 'moral bankruptcy' Doctors from Médecins Sans Frontières treat a patient suspected to have the Ebola virus in 2007 in Congo By JANE MERRICK Sunday 03 August 2014 Britain's leading public health doctor today blames the failure to find a vaccine against the Ebola virus on the "moral bankruptcy" of the pharmaceutical industry to invest in a disease because it has so far only affected people in Africa – despite hundreds of deaths. Professor John Ashton, the president of the UK Faculty of Public Health, says the West needs to treat the deadly virus as if it were taking hold in the wealthiest parts of London rather than just Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. Writing in The Independent on Sunday, Professor Ashton compares the international response to Ebola to that of Aids, which was killing people in Africa for years before treatments were developed once it had spread to the US and UK in the 1980s. He writes: "In both cases [Aids and Ebola], it seems that the involvement of powerless minority groups has contributed to a tardiness of response and a failure to mobilise an adequately resourced international medical response. "In the case of Aids, it took years for proper research funding to be put in place and it was only when so-called 'innocent' groups were involved (women and children, haemophiliac patients and straight men) that the media, politicians, scientific community and funding bodies stood up and took notice." The Ebola outbreak has so far claimed the lives of at least 729 people across Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, according to the latest figures from the World Health Organisation (WHO), although the number is likely to be far higher. Yesterday, a US relief organisation confirmed that two US aid workers who contracted the disease in Liberia had left the country. Dr Kent Brantly was being treated in a specialised hospital unit in Atlanta, Georgia, after becoming the first person with the disease to arrive on US soil yesterday evening. The second aid worker, Nancy Writebol, was due to land on a separate private flight. In pictures: Ebola virus On Friday, the WHO warned that the outbreak in West Africa was "moving faster than our efforts to control it". The organisation's director general, Dr Margaret Chan, warned that if the situation continued to deteriorate, the consequences would be "catastrophic" to human life. Professor Ashton believes that more money must be funnelled into research for treatment. "We must respond to this emergency as if it was in Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster. We must also tackle the scandal of the unwillingness of the pharmaceutical industry to invest in research [on] treatments and vaccines, something they refuse to do because the numbers involved are, in their terms, so small and don't justify the investment. This is the moral bankruptcy of capitalism acting in the absence of a moral and social framework." Western countries are on high alert after Patrick Sawyer, a civil servant for the Liberian government, died last week after arriving at Lagos airport – the first known case in Nigeria. International airline hubs are the focus of attention because of the high volume of passengers flying into and out of West Africa every day. Dubai's Emirates airline began a ban yesterday on its flights in Guinea over the crisis, with the suspension lasting until further notice. Professor Ashton welcomed the decision by the Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, to convene a meeting of the Government's crisis committee, Cobra, last week to discuss the UK's preparedness for cases of Ebola in this country. Development of a vaccine is in the early stages in the US, but this is on a small scale and there is little hope of one being ready to treat the current outbreak in West Africa. Dr Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institutes of Health, an agency of the US Department of Health and Human Services, has said it has plans possibly to begin testing an experimental Ebola vaccine on people in mid-September, following encouraging results in pre-clinical trials on monkeys. Earlier this month, the US Food and Drug Administration put a hold on a trial upon healthy volunteers by Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation to ensure their potential Ebola treatment has no ill-effects, as it sought more information to ensure the safety of volunteers. Professor Ashton said: "The real spotlight needs to be on the poverty and environmental squalor in which epidemics thrive and the failure of political leadership and public health systems to respond effectively. The international community has to be shamed into real commitment... if the root causes of diseases like Ebola are to be addressed." http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/west-accused-of-tardiness-over-ebola-outbreak-9644671.html |
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9jahubcom: hope u are hapi wit datlols......guess you re damn hacked off! |
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