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Ebola: Experts warn against false information via SMS, social media

THE Nigerian Computer Society, NCS, has warned against the use of text messages and social media to create fear, and spread false information on the spread of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD. Commending the Federal Government and the Lagos State Government for their emergency response in containing the EVD  in Nigeria, the President of the the

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COOL: Kaduna teen suspected to have Ebola Virus tests negative

Fear of  fresh cases of the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, yesterday, gripped residents of Lagos and Kaduna, following news of the death of a suspected Ebola patient at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi- Araba, just as a 19-year-old student of Law at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, was allegedly diagnosed with the Ebola

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‘Promising’ Ebola vaccine to go into trials – and it could be available by the end of the year

Britons are to be the first in the world to test a new vaccine against the deadly ebola virus. Altogether 60 healthy volunteers will be given the vaccine next month in a trial led by Oxford University scientists. If the vaccine performs as well in humans as in monkeys, the trial will be extended to

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Is this why we’re all so fat? Junk food can kill your appetite for anything healthy, scientists warn

A diet laden with burgers and fries, dripping with sweet treats and saturated in pies could kill our appetite for healthy foods, scientists warn. A new Australian study has found living on junk food not only makes rats fat, but also suppresses their desires to eat a balanced diet. Scientists believe their findings help explain

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Ebola Patients In Lagos To Be Given Experimental Treatment

Eight out of the Nigerians infected with the deadly Ebola disease will benefit from an experimental treatment in Lagos, Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu has announced. Chukwu, who made the announcement, today at a world press conference in Abuja, said a Nigerian scientist has offered Nigeria the drug, ‘NanoSilver’, for testing on those infected

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Hope In Sight: World Health Org. (WHO) approves experimental Ebola drugs (ZMapp)

The World Health Organisation authorised the use of experimental drugs to fight Ebola as the death toll topped 1 000 and a Spanish priest became the first European to succumb to the outbreak. The declaration by the UN’s health agency came on Tuesday after a US company that makes an experimental serum called ZMapp said

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