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Sunday 10 August 2014

Bitter Kola and Ebola: What Nigerians must know - 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 told 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.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/bitter-kola-ebola-nigerians-must-know-health-minister/#sthash.GOlspmAb.dpuf

48 comments:

Ceeflo said...

So it won't be a bad idea to keep chewing Kola! And yes! Trust some Nigerians ! they wil readily seize the opportunity to swindle people

Alloy Chikezie said...

Ebola should be taken serious, Nigerians should learn not to make jokes with it


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ary said...

Price of bitter kola has risen! It will rise more after this article!

Anonymous said...

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emmilola said...

Hopes

Anonymous said...

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Bonita Bislam said...

Okay o!

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Unknown said...

Please Professor Iwu should go ahead with clinical trial of the extract on animals and man. Who knows Nigerians might just be able to provide a cure for this dreaded disease....May God help us.
The funds released by GEJ shld be well utilised in this research.

Anonymous said...

No wonder! Bitter kola don finish for market. Its a rlly bogus claim. Pepperextedpepper@yahoo.com

Unknown said...

Hahahahaha anything is good to do. Irebisibrown@yahoo.com.sg

Anonymous said...

Finally, sensible articles to help address the myths of this Virus. More like this please. This commendable

Anonymous said...

Finally, sensible articles to help address the myths of this Virus. More like this please. This commendable

Anonymous said...

The suspected reservoirs for Ebola are fruit bats. • Transmission to humans is thought to originate from infected bats or primates that have become infected by bats. Undercooked infected bat and primate (bush) meat transmits the virus to humans. • Human to human transmission is only achieved by physical contact with a person who is acutely and gravely ill from Ebola virus or their body fluids. • Transmission among humans is almost exclusively among caregiver family members or health care workers tending to the very ill. • The virus is easily killed by contact with soap, bleach, sunlight, or drying. A washing machine will kill the virus in clothing saturated with infected body fluids. • A person can incubate the virus without symptoms for 2-21 days, the average being 5-8 days before becoming ill. THEY ARE NOT CONTAGIOUS until they are acutely ill. • Only when ill does the viral load express itself first in the blood and other bodily fluids (e.g vomit, feaces, urine,breast milk, semen and sweat). • If you are walking around you are not infectious to others. • There r documented cases from Kikwit, DRC of an Ebola outbreak in a village that had the custom of children never touching an ill adult.Children living for days in one room huts with parents who died from Ebola did not become infected. • You cant contract Ebola by handling money or swimming in a pool. •There's no medical reason to stop flights,close borders, restrict travel or close embassies, businesses or schools. • Always practice good hand washing techniques,you will not contract Ebola if you do not touch a dying person.

dudette said...

By Gods grace they will find a cure

Anonymous said...

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.

PS: Vigilance by all please.

Bishop Dammy said...

Good every man should caution himself. Watch your tongue and your deeds. Don't let us make Ebola more proud. The devil is a lair! Psalm 46:1. BishopDammy#

Olameedey said...

No prob! Olorun afun won se!

APPLE said...

I am open to any suggestion .This is not the time for me to come `Naija.

Anonymous said...

Yes! his research wasn't put to a final conclusion yet bcos of the politics of who invents the cure and who reaps the lion's share of the potential profits to be made from this health disaster.

Unknown said...

Bitter kola it is then.!..

Okoro said...

May God be with us..amen

Anonymous said...

This what Nigeria govt would have done since

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.... . Spanish Priest to be Treated with Experimental Ebola Drug ZMapp . ..Click to Read

Anonymous said...

Poultry business

Anonymous said...

So bitter kola really has an effect on Ebola? Who'd have thunk it?

I thought that people claiming such things were as crazy as the salt water preachers.

But hmmm...are they sure?

Kimmy*****

Olubukola Ozone said...

Maybe som ppl wil come bak to thr senses wen dey realy start arrestin ppl wit such claims... They are misleading ppl, and its dangerous

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Anonymous said...

Poultry

Anonymous said...

God bless u

Anonymous said...

Just bot a bag of kolanut and a container of sanitizer.. No joking with dis disease

LKJ said...

Koko bitter kola out soon? Lol. I think the govt should explore the possibilities of this research. It would require commitment,sincerity and objectivity

Unknown said...

Am sure his research didn't start today. Just because there is an outbreak, we now found a need to take is hypothesis serious. This should be a wake up call to all of us. We should learn to take things serious in our country. We practically make a joke of everything and that is why we always remain backward.

Anonymous said...

can Nigerian government look into this device, it is currently used in all Asia countries, this device is able to test temperature of individuals in a stream of people and sift through the pedestrian flow to separate the people having fever symptom from normal people, with alarm and video recording function available, preventing epidemic disease from spreading and can be used at airports, bus stations, shopping centers, etc
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DADDYSWIFE said...

Hmm,jst imagin a bus filled wit 20 passengers,n their mouths r swinglin,d sound alone whn one person is chewin it talk more of 20 persons,n imagin some nursin mothers chewin bitter kola like grindin it wit their teeth n givin their baby,Jehovah,lekwa umu gi

Unknown said...

Hmmmm may God help them in all their research.

Anonymous said...

GOD WILL BLESS YOU IMMENSELY!!!

Anonymous said...

In some instances one is forced to say that Nigeria government is senseless, shouldn't they have long invited this Dr Iwe with the collaboration of other brain dead professors back there in Nigeria sitting around doing nothing, am surprise this move has just been proposed. Am curious, then what treatment is administered to victims when hospitalized?? oh my God,am in shock that at this moment Doctors and scientist back there have been unable to suggest a cure or inform the public of the extent and efforts at which discovering a cure has yielded or failed. Is it that they are just sitting around and waiting for the west to come up with a cure? this is shameful.

Anonymous said...

Blacks are too slow in reasoning, why is it taking this long to contact Dr Iwe????????? and even contact some Japaneses and Chinese scientists, since ours are stupid, but yet lectures in universities.

Anonymous said...

Bitter kola is nt bad. For those of uo answering LIB Prince, LIB Syndrome, LIB Addict, Face of LIB etc be careful. I did nt jst bring d concept 'LIB Princess' sometn prompted it. Vry soon Anuty Linda wil officially bring it 2ur notice dat Gnomic Pretex is d LIB Princess!

Anonymous said...

Must we always relent on foreign countries,why can't we just act on our own as the gaint of Africa?

LEEZ said...

And people selling bitter cola will be happy say business don start lol.. God will help us!

Unknown said...

Noted

Unknown said...

ok
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Anonymous said...

The fact is that there is Ebola disease,but the truth is that faith in Christ Jesus gets you immuned.This is pestilence as it written in the Bible,this pestilence is as a result of our forsaking God Almighty.Many people will die from the fear of Ebola than from Ebola,fear kills faster than Ebola,Absolute trust on God's Words gets you protected.(Psalms 91;John 17)Do arm self with the above scriptures,Rejoice therefore for Jesus has already prayed for us...Pastor F.Chineke

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