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Nigeria: Ebola - Hope Dashed as U.S. Declares Drug Pesticide
Vanguard, 16 August 2014
HOPES of immediate relief for victims of the Ebola Virus Disease following reports that doses of an experimental drug, nano-silver, had been delivered were dimmed yesterday. The… Read more »
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Nigeria: Ebola - Nigerians Blast U.S. FDA for Calling its Experimental Drug, Pesticide
Vanguard, 16 August 2014
U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) suffers huge social media backlash from Nigerians yesterday, over its description of Nano Silver as a pesticide, a drug which was recently… Read more »
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Nigeria: Ebola Scare - Controversy, Facts and Alternative Remedies
Vanguard, 15 August 2014
Ebola remains the most dreaded word in the Nigerian- even West African vocabulary right now, pushing HIV/AIDS, malaria, typhoid and hepatitis B to the background of oblivion. Read more »
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Nigeria: Ebola - FG Commences Pre-Clinical Studies of Drugs' Claims
This Day, 17 August 2014
Following the failure of Nano Silver Experimental Drugs to sail through screening by the National Health Research Ethics Committee, the Federal Government is now to commence… Read more »
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Nigeria: FG Deploys Experimental Drug for Ebola Treatment
Daily Trust, 15 August 2014
The Federal Government yesterday said it was deploying an experimental drug-Nanosilver-for the treatment of Ebola. The drug was provided by a Nigerian scientist. Read more »
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Nigeria: Govt Replies US Govt On the Efficacy of Ebola Drugs
This Day, 15 August 2014
Contrary to the wide held opinion by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that trial and experimental drugs being administered in West African countries including… Read more »
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Nigeria: Ebola - Nigerians Advised to Spread Facts, Not Rumours About Virus
Leadership, 16 August 2014
A pharmacist at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Kwara, Mr Lanre Alege, has charged Nigerians to spread facts and not rumours about the Ebola virus. Read more »
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Nigeria: Ebola - Eight Patients in Lagos to Benefit From Experimental Treatment
Vanguard, 14 August 2014
Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu has announced that eight Nigerians affected with the deadly Ebola disease will benefit from an experimental treatment in Lagos. Read more »
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Nigeria: Ebola - Nano-Silver Is Pesticide, Says U.S. FDA
Vanguard, 15 August 2014
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday it has become aware of products being sold online that fraudulently claim to prevent or treat Ebola. Read more »