According to Health Minister…..talking about Dr. Maurice Iwu’s thesis regarding bitter kola and Ebola (Iwu said Kolanut could cure Ebola - based on research), Nigerian Health Minister Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu said the government is considering making laws to arrest people who make bogus claims to have a cure for Ebola, and said Nigeria needs to work with Dr. Iwu. The Minister said todld Vanguard
Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu
"One of the things we decided to focus on by setting up that committee is to streamline claims of possible scientific cure, not a situation where pastors and imams claim they can cure Ebola. We might even go to the extent of making laws to arrest people with such bogus claims. We would take every suggestion seriously. About Professor Iwu, we know that quite a number of Nigerians accessed his article through the internet. Continue
What Professor Iwu and his research team proved in America is that in the laboratory test-tube – not in an animal or a human being – bitter kola extract was able to hinder the growth of Ebola virus, that it was able to slow it down or kill it. That research was not concluded according to Professor Iwu himself and he says he is disappointed that the research was not taken to its logical conclusion.
We need now to work with him and that is why we need him. He is a distinguished world renowned professor of pharmacognosy; and he is someone we value in this country because of his professionalism and working with others; we would be able to put all ideas to the test and see how far we go. This is a serious business.
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Anything/anybody/ they can use all we want is preventive medicine to avoid more death
I saw this on another article i do not know how true but I will share it anyway.
Ebola Case at NNPC Clinic,V/I Lagos:
(As kindly shared by Dr. Olugbodi)
This Ebola epidemic is actually deadlier than we thought.
A woman was just diagnosed of Ebola infection at the NNPC clinic Lagos.
She had her baby at First Consultant (FC) Hospital before Sawyer was admitted but had to take her baby back because of a fever while Sawyer was chronic.
She went to another hospital when the facility was shut by government after Sawyer's death.
When she presented at the NNPC clinic a few days ago with 41 degrees fever, she lied about being anywhere near First Consultant Hospital after delivery until a nurse on routine visit confirmed her presence there during the period.
This nursing mother has 3 other children. Like others discharged from FC when it was shut, she had interacted with other patients and medical personnel at another hospital before visiting NNPC clinic where she was diagnosed today.
This means that primary and secondary contacts of these people as well as their own primary and secondary contacts are susceptible! We are in SERIOUS trouble! NNPC clinic has been closed down,without any provision made for testing its patients and all categories of personnel.
There is no laboratory where Nigerians can check their status for now. We need to ask for help beyond our borders because it is evident we have neither the capacity nor the commitment required to contain this quick action virus.
Please spread the word.
I am frightened as hell.Every newspaper,blog every minute carries this dangerous disease.
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