The United States Centre for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) has categorically denied it is
planning to carry out an Ebola Virus Disease
(EVD) screening for Nigerian passengers flying
into the United States.
According to Tom Frieden, CDC director, any such
proposition would be counterproductive in
particular after the US has extolled Nigeria for its
heroic battle against the spread of the virus.
Nigeria's Ambassador to the US, Professor Ade
Adefuye who spoke with THISDAY after his
contact with Frieden said the CDC was glad to
collaborate with Nigeria after it had been certified
Ebola free with commendation from the highest
authority, in apparent reference to the executive
branch of the government, and a front page report
by the New York Times last Wednesday.
Frieden, according to Adefuye, said the US was so
impressed with Nigeria’s ability to nip in the bud
the spread of the disease that it proposed inviting
Minister of Health Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu to
the country for collaborative efforts by way of
assistance with other countries using the AU as a
platform.
However that plan was shelved when Chukwu
announced Nigeria has donated $3 million to help
fight the Ebola virus in the affected countries as
well as collaborate with the Economic Community
of West African States (ECOWAS) in combating the
virus.
The US therefore is prepared to work with
Chukwu and the ECOWAS in its plan to assist
affected countries in the effort to fight the virus.
“The earlier plan to collaborate with Chukwu
through the AU,” Frieden said, “has been shelved.
The emphasis right now is on ECOWAS.”
Only last Tuesday after publicly stating it has
discovered a case of EVD in Dallas, Texas, which
it said was under control asking the public not to
panic, the CDC said it was sending its personnel
to study how Nigeria contained the killer disease.
According to Frieden in that report, the nation
needed a quick and thorough response to its first
Ebola patient.
He said although Nigeria was not completely out
of the woods; “their extensive response to a
single case of Ebola showed that control was
possible with rapid, focused interventions.”
Frieden said “The best practices in Nigeria and
Senegal suggest the U.S. should monitor all
individuals who may have been exposed to Ebola
and establish a dedicated management and
response system.
Senegal has had no new reported cases of Ebola
since Sept. 18 while Nigeria has not reported new
ones since August 31”
The Associated Press report carried by THISDAY
has jolted Nigerians in the US who gathered on
Independence Day to celebrate the success of the
country in fighting Ebola as well as recording a
rising profile in the comity of nations at a time the
Boko Haram insurgency has brought national
morale to a low.
www.thisdaylive.com/articles/us-denies-ebola-screening-for-nigerian-passengers/190514/

So this Americans could swallow their pride? God Bless Nigeria. The Lion in the jungle of Africa

To hell with obadman and his gangs of pink skin bandwagons who see themselves as demi god. I'm sure they sat down waiting for us to come roll on the floor begging with oil for zmapp and assistance. Never knew a time will come they need to ask us for help

Nigeria great nation if you can remove the thieving politicians

Whatever they do,all I wanna see is an ebola free world.

EBOLA I see u as the most search word on google this year by next year you will go back to bats.

Ebola will soon be history

American wahala