Regarding the salt and water saga this morning, for some, it's all about "obey before complain" and for more enlightened people, it's annoyance and complains for sleep interrupted for a baseless reason. The baseline is, NIGERIANS ARE AFRAID and some elements are feasting on this fear for unfounded reasons.

Sometimes the fear of danger is worse than the danger itself. Those hypertensive and kidney disease patients drinking unregulated quantities of salt water today in fear of Ebola may develop complications that can kill them long before they ever smell the virus that will not reach their doorsteps. Some skin conditions may arise as a result of the various "mixtures" that will be or have been bathed with today (I trust some Nigerians to add other things). More unfortunately, the public hospitals are not in optimal function to even attend to these possible ignorance-induced complications.

Please let's help ourselves. The salt and water ritual is unfounded and has no proven place in the prevention or management of Ebola Virus Disease. Let's spread the right information and stop harming ourselves instead of helping to stop the menace being fought.

If you want to know more about the Ebola virus, then read this alert from the US Embassy here in Nigeria ...
In order to help our Embassy Community better understand some of the key points about the Ebola virus we have consulted with our medical specialists at the U S State Department and assembled this list of bullet points worded in plain language for easy comprehension. Our medical specialists remind everyone that they should be following the guideline from the center for Disease Control and the World Health Organisation.
• 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 the Ebola virus or their body fluids. Continue...
• 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 then in other bodily fluids (to include vomit, feces, urine, breast milk, semen and sweat).
• If you are walking around you are not infectious to others.
• There are 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 small one room huts with parents who died from Ebola did not become infected.
• You cannot contract Ebola by handling money, buying local bread or swimming in a pool.
• There is no medical reason to stop flights, close borders, restrict travel or close embassies, businesses or schools.
• As always practice good hand washing techniques, but you will not contract Ebola if you do not touch a dying person.
• US EMBASSY

Please, please and please, share this information to help people calm down and do the right thing. You could be saving a life about to harm him/herself.

God save Nigeria. Thanks.

If yu sEe ur gf u fit still kiss her if she no sick

Now everyone can calm tf down

CosmicSensation: Now everyone can calm tf down

yes o