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World Ebola Fears Grow With Europe and Asia On Alert.
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FanTasyCreaTioN posted on 12-8-2014 05:35 PM
@edoraixora
Takziah untuk keluarga .. semoga semua nya d permudahkan
Ibunye masih dikuarantin dan dlm pemerhatian doktor
Tapi semakin stabil |
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edoraixora posted on 12-8-2014 07:26 PM 
Ibunye masih dikuarantin dan dlm pemerhatian doktor
Tapi semakin stabil
alhamdulillah ..
moga cepat sembuh
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Canada to donate Ebola vaccine to WHO
Canada says it will donate up to 1,000 doses of an experimental Ebola vaccine to help battle the disease's outbreak in West Africa.
It comes after the World Health Organization said it was ethical to use untested drugs on Ebola patients.
However, experts say supplies of both the vaccine and the experimental drug Zmapp are limited and it could take months to develop more supplies.
More than 1,000 people have been killed by the current outbreak.
Canada says between 800 and 1,000 doses of the vaccine, which has only been tested on animals, will be donated to the World Health Organization (WHO) for use in West Africa.
However, it will keep a small portion of the vaccine for research, and in case it is needed in Canada.
'Global resource'
The current outbreak has infected people in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria.
Dr Gregory Taylor, deputy head of Canada's Public Health Agency, said he saw the vaccines as a "global resource".
He said he had been advised that it would make sense for health care workers to be given the vaccine, given their increased risk of contracting the disease.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28767695
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djflux2000 posted on 12-8-2014 05:07 PM
Sapa layan last ship drama yg pasal the only kapal survive rasa takut plak...keadaan ini hampir sama ...
aku layan drama tu. best. cuma yg epidemic tu airborne disease kan? eps baru ni yg admiral diorg kene tangkap ngan texas tu aku tak tgk lg
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Kena tangkap lepas dah..bini n anak scott pun dpt bebas..cuma ada sorg yg sibuk nak blah dri kapal.tu mati. |
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kena update tred....
Singapore isolates Nigerian woman with suspected Ebola - Straits Times
(Reuters) - Authorities in Singapore sent a woman from Nigeria into a hospital isolation unit on Thursday on suspicion that she might have Ebola, the Straits Times reported on Thursday.
The woman, in her 50s, was believed to have flown into Singapore recently and arrived at a hospital emergency department with a fever, the newspaper said.
She was immediately isolated and transferred by ambulance to a communicable diseases centre, the newspaper said.
(Reporting by Anshuman Daga; Editing by Robert Birsel) |
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Korean Air suspends Kenya flights over Ebola
Korean Air Lines Co. is suspending flights to and from Kenya in what it says is a measure to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus.
The South Korean flag carrier said on Thursday it would stop operating flights between the southern city of Incheon and Nairobi from August 20.
The carrier flies to Nairobi, which is its only destination in Africa, three times a week and did not say when it would resume its service.
Ebola has not been detected in Kenya yet during this most recent outbreak, the worst recorded.
The outbreak has killed more than 1,000 people since the start of the year in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Nigeria last month became the fourth West African country affected.
Dubai carrier Emirates was the first major international airline to impose a ban in response to the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa by suspending flights to Guinea on August 2.
Liberia receives experimental drug
News of the move came after Liberia received the last known doses of the experimental drug ZMapp, to be administered to a small number of patients infected with the virus.
The boxes containing the drug were brought to Liberia on board a flight from the US, carried personally by Liberian Foreign Minister Augustine Ngafuan.
Dr Moses Massaquoi, who helped the Liberian government acquire the doses of ZMapp, said there was enough of the drug to treat three people, one more than the government had stated earlier.
Massaquoi also said he was holding talks with the Canadian maker of another experimental Ebola drug.
The Canadian government has promised to donate 800 to 1,000 doses of its untested Ebola vaccine to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
But manufacturer Tekmira Pharmaceuticals on Wednesday said further trials were required before it could make the treatment available, despite this week's assurances by the WHO that it was ethical to use untested treatments to fight the outbreak.
Nigeria cases rise
The developments came as Nigeria announced its number of confirmed Ebola cases had risen by one to 11.
The figure included three deaths and eight people who were being treated at a special isolation unit set up in Lagos, Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said.
Nigeria has not recorded a case outside Lagos but there were fears that a nurse who was infected in the city may have carried the virus to the key eastern city of Enugu.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/08/korean-air-suspends-kenya-flights-over-ebola-20148141050240159.html |
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Nigeria fears Ebola spread to east by infected nurse
Abuja (AFP) - A nurse who contracted Ebola at a Lagos hospital travelled to the eastern part of Nigeria before falling sick, raising fears of new infections outside the city, officials said Wednesday.
The nurse was infected with the deadly tropical disease while caring for Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian government employee who brought Ebola to Lagos on July 20.
He died on July 25 under quarantine at the First Consultants hospital in Lagos.
Information Minister Labaran Maku earlier told journalists that the nurse "disobeyed medical instructions" given to hospital staff by travelling to Enugu, a major city in the east.
Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu later confirmed that the nurse had tested positive for Ebola.
After contracting the virus in Lagos, she travelled with her husband to Enugu, where she fell sick and went to a hospital.
Medical staff in Enugu transported her back to a special isolation unit in Lagos, where she is currently being treated, the minister said.
So far, there is no confirmation that she infected anyone in the eastern city, but "21 persons (in Enugu) are being watched," Maku said.
Nigeria has recorded 10 Ebola cases, including three deaths. All the cases are currently in Lagos but a spread of the virus across the country, Africa's most populous, would place immense strain on a weak healthcare system.
The nurse's husband has also been quarantined in Lagos despite not having any symptoms, Chukwu told journalists.
"We have to be sure," the health minister said.
Nigeria has tried to locate everyone who interacted with Sawyer, including those on his flight, which originated in Liberia's capital Monrovia.
Maku said 198 people have been identified who may have come into contact with the disease, including those in Enugu.
The worst-ever outbreak of the tropical disease has killed more than 1,000 people since the start of the year in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Nigeria is the fourth country to be affected by the epidemic.
All of the affected countries have declared national emergencies over Ebola.
- Restrictions on burials -
Nigeria’s health minister said the government had cracked down on the movement of corpses for burial.
Aside from health workers, those who participate in the burial of Ebola victims are among the most at-risk for infection.
Families who want to repatriate the remains of a relative must secure a special waiver, which will only be given after the cause of death has been established, Chukwu said.
Similarly, transporting a corpse across state lines is prohibited without approval from federal health authorities, he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/nigeria-fears-ebola-spread-east-infected-nurse-232441108.html |
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tinker_bell posted on 11-8-2014 07:51 PM
ebola ni bila dia masuk dlm badan dia need 1 nucleoside iaitu adenosine untuk replicate..nama pon vi ...
jelasnya penerangan2. terima kasih 
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ni latest news on EBOLA
A Briton who contracted the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone is being flown back to the UK on an RAF jet, the UK Department for Health has said.
The patient, who is a healthcare worker, is to be flown to RAF Northolt and will then be transported to an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in north London.
The Briton is "not currently seriously unwell", a spokesman said.
Health chiefs say the risk to the UK from the virus remains "very low".
The Department of Health (DoH) said the patient was being "medically evacuated" in a specially equipped C17 RAF aircraft following "clinical advice".
It is the first confirmed case of a Briton contracting the virus, for which there is no cure, during the latest outbreak.
The deadly virus is spread between humans through direct contact with infected bloodily fluids.
So far 1,427 people in West Africa have died - more than in any other Ebola outbreak.
A statement from Sierra Leone's health ministry said the Briton had been volunteering at a clinic in the Kenema district of Sierra Leone.
Sidie Yayah Tunis, director of communications at the health ministry, said the patient had been flown out of the country's main airport in the town of Lungi on Sunday.
'Best care possible'
Dr Paul Cosford, director for health protection at Public Health England, said the Briton was being transferred with "all appropriate protocols promptly activated" by UK health agencies.
"Protective measures will be strictly maintained to minimise the risk of transmission to staff transporting the patient to the UK and healthcare workers treating the individual."
He added: "UK hospitals have a proven record of dealing with imported infectious diseases and this patient will be isolated and will receive the best care possible."
Prof John Watson, deputy chief medical officer for the DoH, said the UK had "robust, well-developed and well-tested NHS systems for managing unusual infectious diseases".
"It is important to be reassured that although a case of Ebola in a British national healthcare worker residing in Sierra Leone has been identified and is being brought back to the UK the overall risk to the public in the UK remains very low," he said.
'Slap in the face'
BBC correspondent Will Ross said health workers in West Africa have had to decide whether it is safe to fly the patient back to the UK.
"The experts are saying it is a low-risk move but for the patient it could well be a life-saving move because the clinics in Sierra Leone are so over-stretched," he said.
Our correspondent said the move away from Sierra Leone would "improve the patient's chances" of recovery.
However, for people living in west Africa it was "another slap in the face", he said, because people could see "how much better" health care is in countries like the UK and the US.
It comes after two Americans recovered from Ebola and were last week discharged from hospital having been flown to the US and given an experimental drug.
Dr Kent Brantly, 33, and Nancy Writebol, 59, were flown from Liberia, in West Africa, to Atlanta, in the US, where they received an experimental treatment known as ZMapp.
Officials in Liberia have also said three medical staff have shown signs of improvement after taking the drug.
Health workers say the body has a greater chance of fighting off the virus if the patient seeks help fast and the symptoms are treated.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-28919831
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British Ebola patient on way to UK from Sierra Leone
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A Briton infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone is being flown to Britain on an RAF aircraft.
The patient, who is a healthcare worker, is to be flown to RAF Northolt and will then be transported to an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in north London.
The Department of Health says the patient is not "seriously unwell" at the moment.
Prof John Watson, deputy chief medical officer for England, said the risk to the UK from the virus remains "very low".
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A British national who has contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone is being offered assistance by medical teams there, the UK's Department of Health has said.
It comes amid reports that the unnamed Briton - the first to contract the virus in this outbreak - was being assessed for transfer back to the UK.
It is understood they could be treated at an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital, in north London.
Health chiefs have said the risk of Ebola to the UK remains "very low".
The virus - one of the world's deadliest diseases - is spread between humans through direct contact with infected blood.
So far 1,427 people have died - more than in any other Ebola outbreak.
'Robust 'systems
The Department of Health said the Briton had been living in Sierra Leone, one the countries worst affected by the deadly virus.
BBC News correspondent Sarah Campbell said the person - who is receiving consular assistance - is believed to have been working as an aid worker in the country.
She said a "clinical decision" about whether the Briton should return to the UK could be made later and would be based on their fitness to travel along with the level of care provided in Sierra Leone.
If the person is returned to the UK, our correspondent said, they would be transferred via a "specialist transport isolation team" and could be flown to RAF Northolt, near Uxbridge, in west London.
It is likely they would then be transferred to the high-level isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital -thought to be the only unit of its kind in Europe.
Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) health workers at an isolation camp in Liberia Ebola has spread across four west African countries - including Liberia (pictured) - this year
Several Sunday newspapers have also reported the patient could be transferred to London - but this is yet to be confirmed.
The BBC's Nigeria correspondent Will Ross said they would have a higher chance of survival if treated in the UK because the clinics in Sierra Leone are overwhelmed as the outbreak continues to spread.
Prof John Watson, deputy chief medical officer for England, said the overall risk to the public in the UK from Ebola continued to be "very low".
'Range of experts'
"Medical experts are currently assessing the situation in Sierra Leone to ensure that appropriate care is provided," he said.
"We have robust, well-developed and well-tested NHS systems for managing unusual infectious diseases when they arise, supported by a wide range of experts."
There is no cure for Ebola, although two Americans have recovered and were last week discharged from hospital after they were flown to the US and given an experimental drug.
Dr Kent Brantly, 33, and Nancy Writebol, 59, were flown from Liberia, in West Africa, to Atlanta, in the US, where they received an experimental treatment known as ZMapp.
Officials in Liberia have also said three medical staff have shown signs of improvement after taking the drug.
Health workers say the body has a greater chance of fighting off the virus if the patient seeks help fast and the symptoms are treated.
Dr Kent Brantly Dr Kent Brantly, who has recovered from the Ebola virus, said he was "thrilled to be alive"
In West Africa many people have been reluctant to hand over their relatives, partly because more often than not they never see them again. More than half of those who have caught Ebola have died.
Foreign Office advice, updated earlier this week, urged people to carefully assess their need to travel to Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.
British Airways suspended flights to Liberia and Sierra Leone on 5 August until the end of the month.
The World Health Organization has put the number of people infected with the virus at 2,615. A total of 1,427 have died since the disease was identified in Guinea in March and spread to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria.
Symptoms appear as a sudden onset of fever, intense weakness, muscle pain, headache and sore throat.
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Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)
A fruit bat is pictured in 2010 at the Amneville zoo in France. Fruit bats are believed to be a major carrier of the Ebola virus but do not show symptoms
Symptoms include high fever, bleeding and central nervous system damage
Fatality rate can reach 90% - but current outbreak has mortality rate of about 55%
Incubation period is two to 21 days
There is no vaccine or cure
Supportive care such as rehydrating patients who have diarrhoea and vomiting can help recovery
Fruit bats, a delicacy for some West Africans, are considered to be virus's natural host
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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-28917244
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UK bawa balik seorang rakyatnya yg dijangkiti ebola balik , isolated kat Royal Free Hospital guna RAF . |
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i am sure ...banyak yang 'menanti' patient ini ... |
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time2 mcmni siapa2 yg kerja jd volunteer dgn UN takut..tak tahu la korang tahu ke tak..jdk volunteer UN ni syok woo..dpt 3k dollar sebulan bersih..semua ditanggung..kbykn dtg dr indon/bangladesh..tp syarat dia nk ada ijazah..dkt indon/bangla kn yg ada ijazah gaji rendah..so rata2 opt jdk volunteer UN..harap lah msian yg jd volunteer UN dkt afrika tak blk sini for the time being.. |
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Uncontainable? Nigeria reports two new cases of Ebola
Posted on August 28, 2014
by The Extinction Protocol
August 2014 – AFRICA –
Two new confirmed cases of Ebola virus have been recorded in Port-Harcourt, raising Nigeria’s Ebola virus status to 15, including the index case, Mr Patrick Sawyer.
The Minister confirmed this in a statement issued on Thursday, August 28, giving an update on the Ebola Virus Disease in the country.
The Health Minister’s Full Statement: The total number of cases of EVD cases so far reported in Nigeria stands at fifteen (15).
The total number of cases treated at our isolation ward stands at thirteen (13).
The total number of those discharged is seven (7). The total number of deaths from those treated in Lagos is five (5), and the total number currently under treatment is one (1) and the person is stable and improving clinically.
You will notice that the number of cases has increased from thirteen (13) to fifteen (15).
You will also notice that this additional two (2) were not treated in the isolation ward in Lagos.
One of them is a primary contact of the index case (Mr. Patrick Sawyer).
Even though presently he does not have EVD but further laboratory tests indicate that he had suffered EVD.
This primary contact of Mr. Sawyer’s evaded our surveillance team in the last week of July 2014 and travelled out of Lagos to Port Harcourt where, as we now understand, he consulted with a doctor and was apparently treated for some symptoms.
After four days, following a manhunt for him, he returned to Lagos by which time he was found to be without symptoms. This case would have been of no further interest since he had completed the 21 days of surveillance without any other issue, but for the fact that the doctor who treated him died last Friday, 22nd August, 2014.
Following the report of this death by the doctor’s widow the next day, the case had been thoroughly investigated and laboratory analysis showed that this doctor died from EVD.
As a result, several contacts have now been traced, registered and placed under surveillance.
However, because the widow is now symptomatic, she has been quarantined pending the outcome of laboratory tests on her.
The Incident Management Committee has already deployed a very strong team to Port Harcourt to work with the health authorities of Rivers State. Just like the situation has effectively been managed in Lagos and Enugu, the situation in Port Harcourt will also similarly be effectively managed and we have begun to do so.
The total number of deaths from Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria, therefore, is now six (6), the index case (Mr. Sawyer), the four (4) primary contacts that died in the isolation ward in Lagos, and a doctor that died in Port Harcourt whose blood sample tested positive after death.
Also, seventy (70) persons have been placed under surveillance in Port Harcourt.
I want to charge the residents of Port Harcourt not to panic over this situation as the experience we have gathered from Lagos and Enugu respectively indicate that there is no cause for alarm when you have the government fully in control of the situation.
Once again we appeal to all contacts under surveillance to abide by the advice given to them by the Incident Management Committee.
With regard to Enugu, all secondary contacts will be followed up till tomorrow when they are all expected to be discharged from our surveillance. -CT
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http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/
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Air France staff refuse to fly to Ebola-hit nations (Medical Xpress, 19 August 2014)
Some Air France flight crews are refusing to board planes bound for Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria over fears of the Ebola outbreak, the airline said Tuesday.
Commentary focuses on 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa (Medical Xpress, 19 August 2014)
The Ebola epidemic is spreading in West Africa, with little hope for treatment, and an experimental therapy is unlikely to be provided to African patients, according to two commentaries published online Aug. 19 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Ebola virus outbreak 2014: FDA warns of phony drug treatments (HNGN, 19 August 2014)
Phony Ebola treatments are making their rounds online, and the FDA is warning against drug scams that claim to treat the deadly disease or prevent infection, News 10 reported Sunday.
Government of Barbados - Office of the Prime Minister: Postpone travel to regions with Ebola (noodls, 19 August 2014)
The Ministry of Health is advising Barbadians to postpone non-essential travel to the Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone indefinitely or until the outbreak of the Ebola Virus has been deemed to be under control.
Statement on travel and transport in relation to Ebola virus disease (EVMD) outbreak (WHO, 18 August 2014)
The risk of transmission of Ebola virus disease during air travel is low. Unlike infections such as influenza or tuberculosis, Ebola is not spread by breathing air (and the airborne particles it contains) from an infected person. Transmission requires direct contact with blood, secretions, organs or other body fluids of infected living or dead persons or animals, all unlikely exposures for the average traveller. Travellers are, in any event, advised to avoid all such contacts and routinely practice careful hygiene, like hand washing.
AUSTRIA
Suspected cases in Austria not Ebola: ministry (Medical Xpress, 19 August 2014)
Austria's health ministry gave the all-clear Tuesday evening after regional authorities earlier reported two suspected cases of Ebola in two men recently returned from Nigeria.
GUINEA & NIGERIA
Ebola situation in Nigeria and Guinea: encouraging signs (WHO, 19 August 2014)
The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in west Africa continues to evolve, with cases confirmed in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. At present, no cases have been confirmed anywhere else in the world outside these 4 countries. Nigeria: The situation in Lagos, Nigeria, where the first imported case was detected in July, looks reassuring. At present, the city’s 12 confirmed cases are all part of a single chain of transmission. Guinea: The outbreak in Guinea, where the virus made its first appearance in west Africa last December, is less alarming than in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
LIBERIA
Ebola crisis: Liberia finds 'missing patients' (BBC News, 19 August 2014)
Seventeen suspected Ebola patients who went missing in Liberia after a health centre in the capital was attacked have been found, a minister has said.
Ebola: Liberia soldiers ordered to shoot border crossers (News24, 19 August 2014)
The Liberian armed forces have received orders to shoot any persons crossing into the country from the neighbouring Sierra Leone.
Health workers given untested Ebola drug improving (The Hindu, 20 August 2014)
Three Liberian health workers receiving an experimental drug for Ebola are showing signs of recovery, officials said on Wednesday, though medical experts caution it is not certain if the drug is effective.
Liberia imposes curfew as Ebola crisis grows (News24, 20 August 2014)
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf imposed a night-time curfew from Wednesday and quarantined two affected neighbourhoods in a bid to stem the Ebola epidemic rampaging through West Africa. "Commencing Wednesday, August 20 there will be a curfew from 9:00pm to 6:00am (21:00 to 06:00 GMT)," Sirleaf said in a radio address late on Tuesday.
Liberia fights Ebola in capital, West Africa toll tops 1,200 (Yahoo Daily News, 20 August 2014)
Liberia battled on Tuesday to halt the spread of the Ebola disease in its crowded, run-down oceanside capital Monrovia, recording the most new deaths as fatalities from the world's worst outbreak of the deadly virus rose above 1,200.
Photos from the frontline of Liberia's deadly Ebola outbreak (Huffington Post, 20 August 2014)
One of the biggest challenges in combatting the Ebola virus, which has claimed more than 1,200 lives in West Africa, is misinformation about the disease. Local communities that don't have access to information about how the virus spreads and its health consequences have resorted to ineffective traditional approaches like herbal treatments, and in other cases have denied the virus exists.
SIERRA LEONE
Ebola crisis: A doctor's view from Sierra Leone (BBC News, 20 August 2014)
West Africa's Ebola epidemic, the deadliest on record, presents particular challenges for medical staff. Here, Irish doctor Gabriel Fitzpatrick describes working for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) at the centre of the outbreak in Sierra Leone.
SOUTH AFRICA
Government slams Ebola tourism concerns (EWN, 19 August 2014)
Government has slammed reports that growing fears over the deadly Ebola virus is beginning to impact the country's tourism industry. Reports emerged earlier today that hundreds of tourists due to visit South Africa from Thailand, China, Japan and other Asian countries had cancelled their trips.
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http://listrends.blogspot.com/2014/08/more-information-on-ebola-outbreak-in.html
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So nak tanya apa function vitamin C utk memerangi Ebola? Betol ke vitamin C boleh improve health of EVD patients?? Is there a study on this? |
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