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Ebola: Ghana bans all flights from Nigeria, others

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  • insight to the bone 9 years ago

    very good , for once the govt does something sensible

  • Bibini 9 years ago

    People who fly into Ghana are fairly ok with money and likely able to afford medication and healthcare. There are a lot more people travelling on roads from these countries named and what are we doing about that? If they can' ...
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  • NEMESIS RADAR, UK!! 9 years ago

    These moronic Ghanaians has started their stupidities again. You started your all die be die ACO in the 60s, and Nigeria retaliated in the 80s with 'GHANA MUST GO!' And the rest is history. When Nigeria retaliates this latest ...
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  • Dick 9 years ago

    do not avoid the victims but rather isolate and quarantine them

  • NEMESIS RADAR, UK!! 9 years ago

    What are these LAZY ASS GHFUO doing at the on going Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, with no medal to show for it. Was it because of too much fufu, banku or kokonte?

    Medal table: Ghfuo=2 medals, Naija=30 medals, ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

    Charles Asare is very stupid. Is he going to stop Delta from Monrovia? Another stupid buffoon in the NDC.

  • AKASANOMA 9 years ago

    INVESTIGATE the propagation of Ebola and beware of NGOs, Doctors without borders (Medecins Sans Frontières). These are dangerous institutions, if you care to know. Let's find solutions ourselves, please,please, please!

  • CONTEMNOR 9 years ago

    Immigration officers abandon their post @ Heathrow airport & run in panic as the landing card of a female passenger from Naija had 'E.Bola' written on it. The woman chose to write a shorter version of her name instead of writ ...
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  • NEMESIS RADAR, UK!! 9 years ago

    THAT WAS VERY FUNNY....HAHHAHAHA. FOR THE FIRST TIME, YOU MOTHERFUCKER CONTEMNOR MAKES ME LAUGH FOR REAL. TRUST ME, I AM NOT EASILY AMUSED, BUT THIS ONE WAS FUNNY. KEEP IT UP DEMENTED ROMANO aka DECEPTIVE CONTEMNOR. I AM Y ...
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  • GHFUO: nyantakyi, 1/9aa must go.ASAP! 9 years ago

    So can anyone see the similarities between this so called ebola disease and the movie? Now mahama is going to usa to sign off on a $500m grant from the g8 for Ghana to develop.it's electricity. This shit is smelly, make me go ...
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  • ROMANO 9 years ago

    RIGHT, AMUSED? MY ASS A PSYCHO CAN NEVER BE AMUSED. IDIOTA

  • NEMESIS RADAR, UK!! 9 years ago

    Animal ROMANO aka UGLY KAPWEPWE CONTEMNOR, are a DONKEY OR GORILLA? Just asking.
    Because one of your ministers from Upper West Region, calls you ugly kwepwe Ghanaians Donkeys. Hahahahaha. I AM YOUR NEMESIS 4EVER!

  • IGNORE NEMESIS 9 years ago

    I KNOW NIGERIANS AND THIS IMPOSTERING IDIOT DOESN'T SOUND OR REASON LIKE NOGERIANS.I AM SUSPECTING HIM OR HER TO BE A FOREIGN IMPOSTER BENT ON SOWING DISCORD AND CONFUSION BETWEEN GHANAIANS AND NIGERIANS.NO NIGERIAN CAN BE TH ...
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  • ROMANO 9 years ago

    HMMM U NEVER KNOW WHO IS IGNORE NEMESIS

  • NEMESIS RADAR, UK!! 9 years ago

    Look at these moronic and CONFUSED Ghanaians arguing about the identity of the one and only "ENIGMATIC NEMESIS RADAR, UK."
    These motherfuckers Ghanaians are now CONFUSED.COM Very good. Oh yes, very good indeed. I AM YOUR NE ...
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  • Ghfuo, heaven is NOT for idiots! 9 years ago

    These countries are against EPA and dats why the Europeans have concocted this ebola nonesemse.to.deprive them of globalization and instill fear.

  • ROMANO 9 years ago

    THAT WAS NEMESIS TWIN SISTER .... LOL

  • ROMANO 9 years ago

    THERE ARE GOING TO BE LESS FILTH AND CRIMES IN GHANA.

  • VERY HUNGRY 9 years ago

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  • ELINAN 9 years ago

    Gold mine for inhumane Ghanaian medical doctors to prove they're truly in the business for prestige and money.
    Instead of pressing the govt to provide them with everything they need to do their job and understand this strain ...
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  • yaw yiadom 9 years ago

    I think it's a bold decision the government has to take to protect the people of ghanaians stroke with hardships at this particular moment but my concern is the doctors who had sworn to take to their heels if somebody report ...
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  • Komla Agbeshie ( Ho ) 9 years ago

    Close our borders to all West African States.Equip our hospitals and stop payment of illegal judgment debts. God Bless Ghana and let Nana Addo win the 2016 general elections.

  • Bomber 9 years ago

    It will be a suicidal if doctors are not well protected before they attend to a suspected Ebola patient.

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  • STEPHEN 9 years ago

    What about your foolish and irresponsible useless father who couln´t give you good up bringing? Curse rather on you and the whole of your useless family! Curse on you in particular for such reckless rattlings. You are a dirt ...
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  • kalahariman 9 years ago

    Stop eating bush meat

  • Kalahariman 9 years ago

    The disease can be acquired when a person comes into contact with the blood or bodily fluids of an infected animal such as a monkey or fruit bat. Fruit bats are believed to carry and spread the virus without being affected by ...
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  • Kiki 9 years ago

    please set quarantine camps strategic quarantine camps immediately nationwide. Scientific Evidence based ones that will make Ghana safe. All road borders too till west Africa becomes all clear. God h ...
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  • Kwaku Baako 9 years ago

    Don't u hv anything better to say than this?
    Shame on u

  • Lydia 9 years ago

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  • peeeeeeee 9 years ago

    So foolish so stupid.why don't you do checks at point of entry.wat a public relations disaster.if uk or usa did a blanket ban on all Ghana flights or African there will be an uproar.do extra checks on s leone pr Liberia but n ...
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  • GHFUO: nyantakyi, 1/9aa must go ASAP! 9 years ago

    ALL THESE DISEASES ARE FROM IMPORTED FOODS, DIRTY SURROUNDINGS/IMPORTED TRASH AND PPL WITH SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES...SO, IF GH WANTS TO BAN FLIGHTS FROM THESE NATIONS, THEN IT MUST ALSO STOP IMPORTING THESE DISEASED/CAN ...
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  • peeeeee 9 years ago

    What about by road,boats etc.

  • Kwesi 9 years ago

    That is just a big load of nonsense.

    GMO and Ebola are not connected.

    No recorded case of Ebola infection has ever been reported coming from imported foodproduct.

    The biggest problem is the physical contact, and tha ...
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  • GHFUO: nyantakyi, 1/9aa must go.ASAP! 9 years ago

    Ebola IA a man made, lab produced disease meant to destroy and replete populations for the sake of population control. Resources for humans are scarce, food and medicine is scares and population is high. Use ur fucking brain ...
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  • JJ 9 years ago

    But, otherwise nonsense idea.

  • GHFUO: nyantakyi, 1/9aa must go.ASAP! 9 years ago

    If it was a natural disease prior generations would have already been aware and would have found an antidote by now. There is nothing new under the sun.

  • Blessed 9 years ago

    I support this move. the next step will be to send those criminals back to their maggot-infested shithole. nigeria is cursed!

  • Kofi Manu 9 years ago

    What about aids, cholera and other disease in Ghana..is that a BLESSED?

  • BLESSED NIGERIA 9 years ago

    Ghanaian are cursed with poverty from the independent year up-to date. Nigeria are still 100% better than HIPIC-Ghana.

  • SAM UK 9 years ago

    IN FACT MANY BAD ECONOMIC NEWS IN GHANA OF LATE AND THEY WANT TO CREATE AWARENESS TO THE WORLD.LAZY CITIZEN!!!!WHY NOT CLOSE ROAD BORDERS !!

  • Tonny 9 years ago

    are they serious, a country that can not feed his citizen. you cant compare Abidjan to Accra. Ghana should stop all this nonsenses.

  • francis 9 years ago

    Sam, we ghanaians dont support this kind of knee jerk approach but to go the extend that you went is not also proper. if you think nigeria is better then you're living in the fool paradise. i need not to remind you of the num ...
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  • Kofi Manu 9 years ago

    Ghana was rich after independent but our president gave it to other African countries...

  • Lagos Boy 9 years ago

    Kofi, or whatever you call yourself, are you not ashamed of this funny history. hahahahahah

  • PREKESE 9 years ago

    GO BACK TO 60s AND START YOUR COMPARISON.YOUR RICHES STARTED ONLY IN 70s AFTER YOUR DIRTY WAR.BECAREFUL OF YOUR COMMENTS.GO TO CHANCHANGA AND SHIRORO AND SEE NOW FOR YOURSELF HOW PEOPLE ARE LIVING.FOOLS HAD LED THE COUNTRY S ...
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  • CONTEMNOR 9 years ago

    THOSE ALATA 419ERS MUST BE SCREENED FROM HEAD TO TOE. EBOLA RATS. WE DONT WANT THEIR EBOLA TO SPREAD IN OUR BELOVED COUNTRY GHANA. DEPORT ALL NIGERIANS, ESPECIALLY NEMESIS UK, HIDING IN GHANA DOING ADVANCED FEE FRAUD

  • NEMESIS RADAR, UK!! 9 years ago

    Bring it on! Nigeria will soon show NINCOMPOOPS Ghanaians who is the boss in Africa. How can rats Ghanaians always tempting gentleness of the African giant Nigeria?
    Warning: Do NOT bite more than you can chew. Nigeria is ...
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  • Annoited One!! USA 9 years ago

    NIGERIANS ARE BIG MOUTH MOUTH COWARDS. SHEKAU HAS GOT THEM COWARING AND ALL THEIR SOLDIERS ARE ON THE RUN. WHY DON'T YOU, JONATHAN BADLUCK COME BEG FOR GHANA TO SAFE YOU BEFORE YOU BECME A CALIPHATE SOON!!!!!

  • Annoited One!! USA 9 years ago

    DON'T TRUST THESE NIGERIANS. WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THE DISEASE IS NOT IN LAGOS ALREADY!! BOKO HARAM HAS ALREADY SPREAD IT WITH THEIR MUSLIMS FROM THESE NEIGHBORING MUSLIM COUNTRIES - SL, GUINEA AND Liberia ETC!!!

  • ROMANO 9 years ago

    KEEP BASHING THE AFRICA GIANTS OF APES AND MOTHERS OF ALL EVILS ON THIS PLANET.. GOD BLESS U

  • KELVIN JUDE 9 years ago

    YOU ARE A FOOL WHAT DO YOU KNOW

  • Nana Yaa 9 years ago

    NEMESIS RADAR, you are a shame to yourself, your family and whatever continent you belong to. As sensible as you think you are and "African giants" as you claim Nigerians are, why can't they go back to their country and fight ...
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  • ROMANO 9 years ago

    OH SIR CONTEMNOR U ARE 101% RIGHT. KEEP BASHING THOSE ALATAFUO MONKEYS MOTHERFUCKERS..... NUFF RESPECT

  • ROMANO 9 years ago

    U ARE 101% RIGHT. GH GOVERNMENT MUST QUARANTINE NEMESIS AND ALL NIGERIANS IN GHANA.

  • Kwasi Ghana 9 years ago

    TB Joshua has healed all the Ebola infected people in Nija. hahahahah

  • KELVIN JUDE 9 years ago

    RUBBISH DO NOT IMPLICATE YOURSELF

  • Boss 9 years ago

    So far this is the most sensible thing Ghanaians authorities have done since the over throw of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.

  • Teacher 9 years ago

    This decision is not defensible for so many reasons:
    Ghana and other ECOWAS countries just had a meeting on how to control the Ebola in the subregion and banning flights from neighboring countries is not one of the agreed so ...
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  • peeeeeee 9 years ago

    Tell them please .its like closing front door but leaving windows open....and also making enemies

  • pragmatic solutions needed 9 years ago

    Thanks brother thinking alike

  • Mitchel , Texas 9 years ago

    At long last the NDC government had done something sensible. Kudos!!

  • Sally 9 years ago

    Bats are carriers of Ebola; what steps are being taken to eliminate the myriads of bats living in trees at Military hospital site ? Please kill them all before an epidemic strike the nation. Thanks

  • CC 9 years ago

    I HAVE SEEN INFECTED DEAD BODIES BEING BURRIED IN INFECTED COUNTRIES. WHY DONT THEY BURN THEM? SURE THE VIRUS UNDER THE EARTH CAN SURVIVE AND LEAK INTO GROUNDWATER AS WELL AS PLANTS WHICH LATER CAN BE EATEN BY PEOPLE .

    GHA ...
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  • Bumble 9 years ago

    This is false. No flights has been ban. Flight are still flying from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Ghana is just not ready to fight Ebola should there be any outbreak. We are just jokers. Just talk, nothing concrete have ...
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  • pragmatic solutions needed 9 years ago

    Banning flights is not the way to go. Airports are the best place to monitor and control movement. Are we saying we can not equip and control our only airport? Why should we ban Nigeria because of a single case.Wait the whole ...
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  • kofi 9 years ago

    Let's be serious there is no Ebola in Nigeria.Nigeria has cancelled flights to Liberia so it is an exclusive zone.

    Who advised Mahatma,Ghana is a failed state.

  • bo 9 years ago

    well done Ghana

  • NPP SUPPORTER 9 years ago

    WE CAN'T AFFORD THIS DEADLY DISEASE . THIS IS THE BEST CREDIT FOR NDC MAHAMA ADMINISTRATION BY FAR THIS YEAR .

  • Sasabonsam 9 years ago

    Mahama & NDC don't think far. Ghana has no plane to bring Ghanaians home. Let me remind you, Mr Mahama, you have closed our national airline. You & your clones want to hire planes and get you 10%.

  • Kwaku Baako 9 years ago

    U fool

  • Atta, Lagos 9 years ago

    Mahama, where is your plane to bring us home

  • Fui 9 years ago

    Ebola kills up to 90% of those infected.

  • ooooo 9 years ago

    Jokers, flying morrow nd now realising flights hav been cancelled... the beginning of economic war.. if only man did what God, not to eat bat

  • Thomas 9 years ago

    LET US KEEP OUR PERSONAL HYGIENE BEHAVIOR AND STOP HUGGING AND SHAKING HANDS WITH STRANGERS BECAUSE THE VICTIMS OF THIS EBOLA HAS 90% CHANCE TO DIE AND CAN BE IF IT WAS DIAGNOSE EARLY,BE CAREFUL WHAT U TOUCH AND EAT.AS THEY S ...
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  • British Scientist 9 years ago

    Ghana must get international help.

  • Mensah 9 years ago

    This is a bogus story. No Ghanaian news media has reported such a ban and stupid story

  • USA 9 years ago

    Stop eating bats, rats and monkeys NOW !

  • atadwe-G 9 years ago

    ....the chances there for Ebola to appear are much much higher than in Tamale where the sun is almost too hot for the virus.

  • OBEAA MAAME TWE 9 years ago

    OBEAA MAAME TWE

  • oshe 9 years ago

    what about if those affected travel to Ghana by land(Car)? This could be worse Case!

  • JAMES Y 9 years ago

    Cowards! Ghanaian doctors just want big salaries and do a runner if the very sick come to their hospitals. Cowards; that's what they are! They prefer sitting on their backsides at large tables chatting the nurses and doing n ...
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  • Akyem 9 years ago

    I just don't get it.
    They eat animal faeces too!..then when u are called uncivilized you get annoyed?
    Kai.

  • Jerry Sodeman 9 years ago

    I see the ban on flights from Nigeria as a poor decision. There is one case there which is a person from Guinea who is quanrantined. There are thousnds of terrorists in Nigeria. Why wasn't travel banned because of them?
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  • nnnnnn 9 years ago

    Why is the HEADLINE always has to be NIGERIA??? countries like Liberia that hundreds have died your media didn't state it, but nigeria

  • KWAKU 9 years ago

    SO WHATS THIS PUBLIC SHOW OF GHANA BANNING FLIGHTS FROM NIGERIA WHEN WE HAVE CARS SHUTTLING BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES VERY SECOND AND MINUTE OF THE DAY? WE ALL KNOW THE VOLUME OF TRAFFIC ON THE ROAD , AS FAR AS MOVEMENT OF PE ...
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  • Anita 9 years ago

    Doctors running away from Ebola patients ? Cowards !

  • Seaman UK 9 years ago

    screen them ebola patience allow them in do you want your brother / sisters to die abroad? Screen then and help them give the people what they want

  • david mawusi {Alogboshie-Achimota } 9 years ago

    it is a very big shame for a gruop of highly knowlegale people to jump to such a conclution. shame onto them !!!

  • National Patapaa Party 9 years ago

    Concerning the doctors at Korle bu and KATH,this is no big surprise, all they know is demanding more money for little work and strike! Wicked doctors!

  • Nana 9 years ago

    That's a wise thing the Government will do to protect it's people. But what about those coming into the country by land for example,Ghana to Nigeria driving takes less than a day. And by the grace of ECOWAS people travel by l ...
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  • test 9 years ago

    test

  • Sincerity 9 years ago

    What about those who enter Ghana by and and sea

  • Sincerity 9 years ago

    The govt. should consider those who enter by land and sea

  • VICTOR BAIDOO, SOUTH AFRICA 9 years ago

    I don't believe this is true. Will someone living in Ghana confirm that that the Government of Ghana has really banned all flights from Nigeria, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia?

  • YAW USA 9 years ago

    The doctor have to protect themselves by wearing personal protective equipment(PPE) but to run away from patients.

  • Kofi 9 years ago

    You want the doctors to provide PPE for themselves? What about the other health workers? Isn't it the duty of the authorities to provide the necessary equipment to the employees?

  • Ghanaba 9 years ago

    Many many many more people cross our land borders than at the airport.
    Better use the time to prepare for quarantine camps and supplies.

  • Agyaku NYC 9 years ago

    The news perhaps is sour to Nigerians but Ghana get to do whatever take to protect the people in Ghana. All ports of entries must be highly alert, if possible close down all borders. Ghana doctors are not equip and capable t ...
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  • ERIC 9 years ago

    GHANA HAS DONE THE RIGHT FIRST TIME.

  • COS90 9 years ago

    Ghana should also banned all cars from these affected countries as means of controling this deadly disease( EBOLA).

  • Kobena Kingsley, Cape Coast 9 years ago

    Dr. Dodi Abdallah, Why don't you and other doctors like your self who are all a shame to the medical profession ran away from Ghana. It is easy to tell a fool from what he says. do doctors running away from sick? what is Ghan ...
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  • Kibesh 9 years ago

    stupid men with a medicine degree, I am skeptical to refer to these clowns as a doctors because they do not befit that noble title. How can a doctors declare plainly they will run away from sick patients. There are people wit ...
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  • Naa 9 years ago

    No that's not enough please. We have 42 boarders, and only 4 of them are secured.

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  • KELVIN JUDE 9 years ago

    its better you don't criticize cos you do not know if its already in Ghana. Just be careful and take precautions cos it has been for a long time

  • KELVIN JUDE 9 years ago

    BE CAREFUL

  • GhanaBoy 9 years ago

    Our borders too... Any in coming immigrants should be check. May Allah protect us all.

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  • Honestman 9 years ago

    Whee did get your news from, its always lying without any source of truth. in any case Ghana can flights from Nigeria, what about that , Nigeria can also ban flights from Ghana who cares.You controls Ghana, u are joke

  • Kofi 9 years ago

    Actually all West African countries need to be shut off from each other for a month or two despite the potential economic costs.

  • Mawuli 9 years ago

    You made me cry from laughing CONTEMNOR.

    I can't stop laughing even whilst writing. If that is a true story, that must be one of the most creative ways of entering London.

    You joke is very very very funny. Just imagini ...
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  • gemini 9 years ago

    If this is true then its appalling, Ghanaians should be wise not ignorant ,the US is transporting two workers with the virus fully alive to US no one in US hasnt raised fear- the disease has not been found in Nigeria or Ghana ...
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  • Mitchel , Texas 9 years ago

    Fucking NDC liars. Its never true.

  • Hot headed insulting 9 years ago

    The source of the hews is Nigeria. Ghana has taken no such action. There is no evidence of transmission within Nigeria

  • Ken 9 years ago

    Ghana is actually closer to the epicenter of this disease, many Ghanaians live in Liberia, and they interact more with Sierra Leone and Guinea, Nigeria should instead ban Ghana.

  • michael 9 years ago

    absolute nonsense..you ban flights from Nigeria..but all the ghanaian fishermen coming from Liberia you haven't controlled. that is even where ebola will come from. even cholera you cannot handle. there is even nothing in pla ...
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  • Cephas 9 years ago

    Virgin coconut oil is antiviral. It should be incorporated in the diet of the patients with ebola.

  • ADAMU 9 years ago

    BUT IT IS NOT POSIBLE