Ebola Scare Hits JFK, As Nigerian Passenger Dies

An unnamed 63-year-old passenger was vomiting and died during Nigeria-US (JFK, New York) flight, but Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials provided only a ‘cursory’ examination before stating there was no Ebola.

The man boarded an Arik Air plane out of Lagos, Nigeria, on Wednesday night, but

Ebola Drug Passes Early Test

After all the bad news that have been going round over the outbreak of the Ebola virus in West African countries, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, a piece of good news finally arrived some moments ago.

Reporting online in the British journal Nature, researchers at the Public Health Agency of Canada announced that a prototype drug, ZMapp, that has been urgently given to a handful of patients with Ebola has cleared an important test hurdle.

According to the scientists report, the drug test results showed that ZMapp

Fresh Ebola Outbreak In Port Harcourt Confirmed

It would be recalled that yesterday it was unofficially reported that the doctor whose name is yet to be provided died August 22 in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, from the deadly tropical virus.

The top Nigerian health official confirmed August 28 the information:

“This primary contact of Mr. Sawyer’s evaded our surveillance team in the

5 Ebola Patients Are Improving - Governor Fashola

A bright light has been shone into the darkness of the current Ebola outbreak as Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos has said that some of the patients are getting better.

Fashola disclosed this during a series of meetings with religious leaders, chairmen and health workers of the 57 local councils in the state.

He said:

“We now have 10 persons in isolation that are receiving treatment. Eight of them have been confirmed positive for the Ebola Virus Disease. We are still waiting for the results of the remaining two persons.

"All of them are stable, which means that they are not deteriorating. Five of them have really improved. This means they are fighting back. It confirms that Ebola is not an automatic death sentence if we do the right thing at the right time”

The number of cases officially on record in Nigeria has now reached 10 after the virus was brought into Lagos by Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer.

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Fear of Ebola Leads To Man's Death At Lagos Airport

 

There was confusion at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos yesterday when a man slumped and died within the airport premises.

The deceased, identified as Akunne Osei, was waiting to collect his Yellow Card from Port Health officials when he lost his life.

He was said to be a resident of Accra who was heading ba

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ck to his base for medical treatment.

A statement as regards the event was issued by the General Manager, Corporate Communication, Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, Mr Yakubu Dati, who said:

How Ebola Outbreak Started

According to the The New England Journal of Medicine, this year's Ebola outbreak possibly started with a 2-year-old boy from Guinea.

Researchers have said that the young boy is likely to have caught the virus in early December after which he died.

The toddler was an indigene of Guéckédou, a village which is near the borders of Guinea, Sierra

Ebola Scare: Confusion in Anambra as possible ebola case is reported

The man was said to have been an indigene of the stated who died in Liberia where the virus has killed so many

Fear arose in Anambra yesterday over the Ebola virus after the body of a citizen was brought in from Liberia.

The country came into the spotlight when 40-year-old Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian official died in Nigeria.

 The dead body was said to hold been brought into the land via shipment and deposited at the

Did Schwarzenegger Infects Prisoners With Leprosy-Like Disease?

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger has denied being responsible for exposing prison inmates to a leprosy-like disease while governor of California.

The Terminator actor claims in new legal docs obtained by TMZ today that he is not personally responsible for an outbreak in Pleasant Valley State Prison, where spores in the soil triggered an epidemic of Valley Fever - a disease that attacks the body's organs and leads to skin lesions, amputations and brain damage.

Schwarzenegger is being sued by inmates who claim they got sick because of his indifference and storing prisoners where dangerous spores were in abundance.

Men's Killer Disease (Prevent Prostate Cancer)

8 Steps to Prevent Prostate Cancer

By: Matt Bean 

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  Overview
• Love Thyself
• Be Happy You're Going Bald
• Wine and Dine
• Lower the Bar
• Calculate Your Risk
• Hit the Spice Rack
• Use a Computer-Assisted Doctor
• Rehab Your Erections

It's one of those weird anatomical-arboreal coincidences: The human prostate is about the size and shape of a walnut. But what if it really were a walnut? For one thing, you'd never get prostate cancer. Which sounds great, until you realize that you could get "walnut curculio" or "walnut-husk maggot" instead. Better to deal with the devil you know.

And what a devil it is. Last year, 221,000 men (one of them Robert De Niro) were diagnosed with prostate cancer; that's more than lung, colon, and brain cancers combined. And nearly 29,000 men died of it last year. These are grim statistics, but there's reason to be optimistic.

Make that eight reasons. Here is the latest, hot-out-of-the-lab research on how you can prevent, detect, and treat the disease. Putting this science into action (read: more sex, more wine) won't confer absolute immunity, but it will make your prostate one tough nut to crack.

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