Ebola in Nigeria: 11 cases recorded, 3 dead, 8 under treatment & 175 under surveillance as a Nigerian discovers a curative drug "Nano Silver"

 

One of the doctors that treated late Patrick Sawyer is down with the Ebola Virus after the death of a second nurse.

For a correct update on the Ebola Disease Virus in Nigeria, read what the Minister of Health told newsmen in Abuja:

“Eight (others) are still alive, more than half of them are doing very well and actually showing signs of recovery … under treatment,”

“As at Wednesday, we were following on 21 of them, but after a very stringent and rigorous interview, we found out that 15 do not qualify as contacts because people who probably stayed far away the subject claimed they are contacts.

“So, as at Thursday morning, we have only six contacts, this shows you the amount of work being done every hour.

“I repeat, surveillance in Enugu is on six, surveillance in Lagos, 169; all secondary contacts, the ones in Enugu are also secondary contacts.

“There is no more primary contact who is under surveillance. The primary contacts who are sick and are being treated are eight, the primary contacts who were but died were two and of course the index case is late.

“Total number of cases confirmed this morning are 11, three dead, eight under treatment.

“Regarding the contact in Enugu, one of the primary contacts at the time she has no symptom disobeyed the management committee and left Lagos.

“She was newly married and she went to visit the husband. Only two of them lived in the house in Enugu.

“But when she developed the first symptom, she got alarmed and she went to a health facility from where it was reported to the incident management committee and since then, she is under treatment in Lagos having being among the 11 that have been confirmed positive.

“The husband, even though has not shown any symptoms till now, he is not Ebola positive as at now, but he is under quarantine because of the intimate contact in Lagos.

“When she was going to Enugu, she did not infect anybody because she had no symptoms that time.

“You can only infect someone if you have symptoms. She did not infect anybody on her way to Enugu.

“On her return journey to Lagos, both of them travelled in special ambulances. Presently, only six secondary contacts are under surveillance in Enugu down from the initial 21,”

Chukwu also disclosed that a trial drug for Ebola, ‘Nano Silver’, has been developed by a Nigerian scientist.

According to him, the drug has been used experimentally for many things and was expected to be sent to Lagos on Thursday (yesterday) for the treatment of the already confirmed Ebola patients.

Meanwhile, the Red Cross Society in Anambra State also on Thursday demonstrated awareness on measures to take in tackling the Ebola scourge.

Vice Chairman of the Red Cross in the state, Peter Katchy, delivered a lecture to a cross section of Red Cross officials, soldiers, police, Navy, Immigration, Civil Defence among others on the Ebola virus.

The lecture was entitled, ‘Nigerian Red Cross Society Anambra State preparedness and response plan programme for Ebola Virus Disease’.

Katchy dwelt into the origin, statistics of victims already claimed by Ebola virus disease, where each strand of disease originated from and strategy on how to tackle if it ever occurs in Anambra State.