'Mystery disease' kills 18 in Nigeria - officials

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Raila Odinga 10 years ago

Patch them all up

Patch them all up
PROPHET OF TRUTH 10 years ago

TB JOSHUA CAN RAISE THE DEAD.

TB JOSHUA CAN RAISE THE DEAD.
KING OF NANA-NUM 10 years ago

WHITE MAN WORK ANOTHER STYLE OF EBOLA, GOD IS IN CONTROL AFRICA, WE SHALL OVERCOME OVER ALL THIS SOON.

WHITE MAN WORK ANOTHER STYLE OF EBOLA, GOD IS IN CONTROL AFRICA, WE SHALL OVERCOME OVER ALL THIS SOON.
Abongo 10 years ago

Hahaha Nija you are in big ness

Hahaha Nija you are in big ness
CITIZEN ONE 10 years ago

I have long pondered how and why the hell people survive and make it to adulthood in Ghana(Africa). After observing the kind of filth normal looking people create, then ingest, it seems to me most strange that we haven't arri ...
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I have long pondered how and why the hell people survive and make it to adulthood in Ghana(Africa). After observing the kind of filth normal looking people create, then ingest, it seems to me most strange that we haven't arrive at the ZOMBIE age yet. Zombies are real and I can assure you that the dead in Africa will start popping out of their graves, and begin to hunt and eat the living alive.

We are still a very primitive species. It is not shameful to recognize how a completely sane and intelligent Ghanaian could blame white people for our abject stupidity and ignorance as part of the human race. When I joke that white people are Aliens from a very highly advanced civilization who's craft crashed on earth millions of years ago, yeah everybody frowns. Whatever form they originally appeared as, I do not know, but I know one thing they snatched our skeletal frame, and the rest is our story, not his-story.

We Africans have generated every godforsaken disease in this world, but tend to want to blame the western civilizations for it. Name it, it started with our specie or things closer to out specie than the Caucasoid specie. If it weren't for any great great great grandchildren I could anticipate, I shall curse this planet earth to doom soon, but I shall let it be for another 448 years!!! Mark my words. Africa is the land of the living dead! We just aren't' blood thirsty yet, but sure as I have seen, we love to eat shit.
NEMESIS RADAR, UK!! 10 years ago

History of xenophobic ATTACK is now rearing its UGLY HEAD in far away South Africa, where Ghanaians descendants' of (Xenophobic, Stupid, Wicked, Heartless, Satanic and Demented Asshanti Kofi Abrefa Busia), are now having the ...
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History of xenophobic ATTACK is now rearing its UGLY HEAD in far away South Africa, where Ghanaians descendants' of (Xenophobic, Stupid, Wicked, Heartless, Satanic and Demented Asshanti Kofi Abrefa Busia), are now having the taste of their fore fathers' ACO Xenophobic attacks on their fellow Africans in the 60s, (where Ghanaians 'HEARTLESSLY AND WICKEDLY' expelled their fellow Africans, mostly Nigerians from Ghana and stole their properties with impunity).

Moreover, many mansions "owned" by some Ghanaians were confiscated from Nigerians or forced the Nigerian owners to sell to them at prices which could not buy the cement used to build the houses at the time.

Ghanaians sowed the 'SATANIC SEEDS OF XENOPHOBIC HATRED' on the soil of mama Africa in the 60s. That is a fact! Never in the history of mama Africa that you sees your fellow black Africans as 'Aliens'; but thanks to the Ghanaians xenophobic ACO's precedent, Africans are now 'DISCRIMINATING' against themselves. That was Ghanaians legacy to Africa. What a SHAME indeed!

Ghanaians should always have it at the back of their minds with hindsight that the law of 'KARMA' is no respecter of no one. Not even the descendants of satanic Asshantis 'METI MEHU' and 'ALL DIE BE DIE' VIOLENCE. What goes around always comes around. NEMESIS RADAR, UK!!
United Ghana 10 years ago

It's not funny. Whatever it is, due to regular travel between our 2 countries, we are vulnerable & our govt has degraded our health services. Ultimately, poor leadership could be our demise

It's not funny. Whatever it is, due to regular travel between our 2 countries, we are vulnerable & our govt has degraded our health services. Ultimately, poor leadership could be our demise
Mary 10 years ago

The government should stop nigerians coming in.

The government should stop nigerians coming in.
Kofii 10 years ago

Filth

Filth
Victor A. Young 10 years ago

Eish! What's happening in Africa? After fighting to curb Ebola, now this one too; is it another manufactured virus to cause epidemic on our continent? Nigeria, ECOWAS, AU and the African continent must wake up and find the ro ...
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Eish! What's happening in Africa? After fighting to curb Ebola, now this one too; is it another manufactured virus to cause epidemic on our continent? Nigeria, ECOWAS, AU and the African continent must wake up and find the root cause of this killer desease before it gets out of hand.

ERNEST 10 years ago

It pains me so much how the whites always manufacture viruses from the West and then drop them among us in Africa to kill us simply because they see us as animals (as one of the former South African Presidents who was a pure ...
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It pains me so much how the whites always manufacture viruses from the West and then drop them among us in Africa to kill us simply because they see us as animals (as one of the former South African Presidents who was a pure white man) blatantly said, and said we blacks are RAW MATERIALS to them (this pierces my heart as with knife.)

After the emergence of diabolic scoundrels from South Africa which is not yet curbed, look at another deadly disease which kills within 24 hours which is faster than Ebola (21 days) and WHO says Ebola remains a treat Ghana.

Africa; we only yap, we don't know anything, we don't learn, we are copy-do(s), we don't research, we don't know what to research and even where to start from.

If the white-man is able to alter your hormones to the extent of even completely converting a whole human - man into a woman and vice versa, why then can't he kill you?

LOOK AT WHAT HAS LANDED IN NIGERIA AGAIN.
nana kofi 10 years ago

If we black people were left on our own without the help of the white man, we would have been far extinct from the earth. Lets face it, how many medical interventions, drugs, surgeries and other remedies do we invent ourselve ...
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If we black people were left on our own without the help of the white man, we would have been far extinct from the earth. Lets face it, how many medical interventions, drugs, surgeries and other remedies do we invent ourselves as black people? It's time we stop talking of conspiracies and re-evaluate the pathetic, selfish, greedy, disloyal and all abhorent traits that we carry. We simply do not carry the caring and loving spirit that the whiteman carry. Look around you in Kumasi, Accra or any city in Ghana or Nigeria and tell me if the filthy sorroundings around us is a reason for any possible outbreak or not...and dont tell me the sanitation day had recently made our environs clean...no
Okess 10 years ago

Our ancestors survived and lived for centuries in the jungles without a whiteman's medication. They are killing us.

Our ancestors survived and lived for centuries in the jungles without a whiteman's medication. They are killing us.
Ashkelo 10 years ago

Please b4 d coming of d Whiteman tell did Africa had all this viruses? NO! You must understand d whites hv a hidden agenda for we blacks, if u don't know this then am sorry.

Please b4 d coming of d Whiteman tell did Africa had all this viruses? NO! You must understand d whites hv a hidden agenda for we blacks, if u don't know this then am sorry.
Ark man 10 years ago

I really appreciate your view ,Africans would have been long dead or still struggling with the tendecies of state of Nature and barbaric outlandish cultures. though civilization has been brought to our doorsteps we still ever ...
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I really appreciate your view ,Africans would have been long dead or still struggling with the tendecies of state of Nature and barbaric outlandish cultures. though civilization has been brought to our doorsteps we still every now and then revert to our primodial flawed thinking, i know we will have to rely on the whites again with this outbreak and when help isn't forth coming on time we will launch into barage of accusations as to the whiteman's intent and purpose about Africans.!
ampaw 10 years ago

You are right sir, I really appreciate your comment, i have been expressing and worrying about lack of research in our Universities , it's making us in Africa immobile in terms of development ,ideas , innovations and technolo ...
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You are right sir, I really appreciate your comment, i have been expressing and worrying about lack of research in our Universities , it's making us in Africa immobile in terms of development ,ideas , innovations and technology, basically medical research must be intensified. I hope one day there will be a change of how our leaders think,and plan ahead of our problems .We can't wait till we exceed our electricity consumption megawatts before planning to solve it while we had the chance to avoid this dumsor mess going on and killing industries.
abebs 10 years ago

The issue is every PHd student want to school abroad. who should do the research. phd is simply researching to understand the cause and possibly the solution to a practical problem. how many of our profs had their phd in Ghan ...
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The issue is every PHd student want to school abroad. who should do the research. phd is simply researching to understand the cause and possibly the solution to a practical problem. how many of our profs had their phd in Ghana to solve Ghana problem. they all contributed to a foreign country system. I only blame our university profs who do not make research study in Ghana attractive. it can take you years upon years to complete
Tekonline.org 10 years ago

Our whole lives seem to be defined by acquisition of personal wealth and nothing else, as nicely put by one university graduate:

"...On November 14, this year, I happened to be part of the fresh graduates of 2014 from one ...
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Our whole lives seem to be defined by acquisition of personal wealth and nothing else, as nicely put by one university graduate:

"...On November 14, this year, I happened to be part of the fresh graduates of 2014 from one of the best tertiary communication schools in Ghana, which also passed out about 1,500 students.

Just like me, in the minds of about 70% percent of the fresh graduates, it is always their thought that when out of school, they expect to get a well paying job, advance to get a property, and get married to the love of their lives and live happily ever after with their beautiful kids. "
Tekonline.org 10 years ago

I don't think the white man needs to invent any new viruses. Just withholding antimalarial and antihypertensive drugs can wipe out large numbers of Africans within just a year.
Millions in Africa die from malaria annually.

I don't think the white man needs to invent any new viruses. Just withholding antimalarial and antihypertensive drugs can wipe out large numbers of Africans within just a year.
Millions in Africa die from malaria annually.
osaman 10 years ago

Infact this disease should ve attack boko haram. The gvt. & ecowas must stand right.

Infact this disease should ve attack boko haram. The gvt. & ecowas must stand right.

Traveller 10 years ago

south-eastern Nigeria. Ondo state is not anywhere in eastern Nigeria. In fact, before it became Ondo state, it was part of what was known as Western Nigeria, with Ibadan as state capital.

south-eastern Nigeria. Ondo state is not anywhere in eastern Nigeria. In fact, before it became Ondo state, it was part of what was known as Western Nigeria, with Ibadan as state capital.
KOOBOy 10 years ago

How come tb Joshua could not foresee in his own country

How come tb Joshua could not foresee in his own country
Jaaf 10 years ago

Be little serious as human being to learn where n when to ctack jokes.

Be little serious as human being to learn where n when to ctack jokes.
Jaaf 10 years ago

Be little serious as a human being to learn where n when to crack jokes

Be little serious as a human being to learn where n when to crack jokes
AmaGhaddafi 10 years ago

Nigeria has to be careful with this WHO organization. The west are thirsty for those oil reserves in Nigeria. This disease has been strategically packaged for Nigeria. We must unite with our best doctors and start funding f ...
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Nigeria has to be careful with this WHO organization. The west are thirsty for those oil reserves in Nigeria. This disease has been strategically packaged for Nigeria. We must unite with our best doctors and start funding for research FOR us BY us. Africans open your fucking eyes
WhenIdiotsRule 10 years ago

Your imagination will kill you, if you think WHO wants Nigeria's oil !

Your imagination will kill you, if you think WHO wants Nigeria's oil !
AmaGhaddafi 10 years ago

If you read carefully, I wrote the west is thirsty for oil reserves. May thunder strike your lineage with epilepsy foolish tilapia. Incompetent son of a bitch. You've now been dismissed. I will not dignify further response ...
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If you read carefully, I wrote the west is thirsty for oil reserves. May thunder strike your lineage with epilepsy foolish tilapia. Incompetent son of a bitch. You've now been dismissed. I will not dignify further response to illiterates like you
peeeeee 10 years ago

Strong words?ama

Strong words?ama
koti 10 years ago

Ebei, Africa wake up from ur slumber. Where as d white is doing everything to wipe d entire African population u people r here to batter words of insults with each other instead. R we serious as a people? Just leave ur constr ...
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Ebei, Africa wake up from ur slumber. Where as d white is doing everything to wipe d entire African population u people r here to batter words of insults with each other instead. R we serious as a people? Just leave ur constructive comments n stop did bickering n rancour.
peeeeee 10 years ago

Serious words @ama

Serious words @ama

Wo korti sua 10 years ago

strong yes.

strong yes.
eno 10 years ago

Wicked Nigeria, braggarts can all go to hell for all I care,

Wicked Nigeria, braggarts can all go to hell for all I care,
Tony.NY 10 years ago

Why TB Joshua didn't see this

Why TB Joshua didn't see this
Musah 10 years ago

every bad thing can be found in Nigeria

every bad thing can be found in Nigeria
Jaaf 10 years ago

As every good thing can be found there. Alhamdulillah

As every good thing can be found there. Alhamdulillah
ROMANO 10 years ago

CLOSE AFLAO BORDER ASAP AND QUARANTINE ALL NIGERIANS IN GHANA . EVERY BAD THING ORIGINATES FROM NIGERIA.

CLOSE AFLAO BORDER ASAP AND QUARANTINE ALL NIGERIANS IN GHANA . EVERY BAD THING ORIGINATES FROM NIGERIA.
majid 10 years ago

Thank you. At least Nigerians are better than your people. They don't give out their wives to another man for money. Nigeria is a complete country and full of great people. South Africans will soon kill all of you and you wi ...
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Thank you. At least Nigerians are better than your people. They don't give out their wives to another man for money. Nigeria is a complete country and full of great people. South Africans will soon kill all of you and you will know that Nigerians are better than most of you. Anything is pushed on Nigeria, let me know your country then I will tell you what you fools are covering up. You must be a Ghanaian, because they are the haters .
dumsor dumsor 10 years ago

Aboa ba, cum to uk n see ur stupid Nigerian people cleaning toilet like animals, idiot

Aboa ba, cum to uk n see ur stupid Nigerian people cleaning toilet like animals, idiot
dumsor dumsor 10 years ago

Aboa ba, cum to uk n see ur stupid Nigerian people cleaning toilet like animals, idiot

Aboa ba, cum to uk n see ur stupid Nigerian people cleaning toilet like animals, idiot
dumsor dumsor 10 years ago

Aboa ba, cum to uk n see ur stupid Nigerian people cleaning toilet like animals, idiot

Aboa ba, cum to uk n see ur stupid Nigerian people cleaning toilet like animals, idiot
dumsor dumsor 10 years ago

Aboa ba, cum to uk n see ur stupid Nigerian people cleaning toilet like animals, idiot

Aboa ba, cum to uk n see ur stupid Nigerian people cleaning toilet like animals, idiot
Africa 10 years ago

Hope that disease would be FOUND and DELT WITH ... For IF its FROM an ENEMY THEN HE SHOULD be WATCFUL because what's COMING its BIGGER THAN WHAT THEY HAVE THAT'S WHY THEY ARE GIVEN time TO CHANGE EVERY TIME...

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Hope that disease would be FOUND and DELT WITH ... For IF its FROM an ENEMY THEN HE SHOULD be WATCFUL because what's COMING its BIGGER THAN WHAT THEY HAVE THAT'S WHY THEY ARE GIVEN time TO CHANGE EVERY TIME...

YESTERDAY WEST AFRICAN'S BORDER WAS GIVEN FREE ACCESS OF TRANSIT IN THEIR ECONOMICS ,BUT TODAY THERE IS SOMETHING BIGGER THAN ALL THOSE PAST ... MAY GOD HAVE MERCY IF TO SAY HE DID BECAUSE AFRICAN'S ARE foolish IN THEIR WAYS ... SO HE BROUGHT IT AS PUNISHMENT HE GAVE TO THE TIME OF TRAVELING IN MOSES KINGDOM .... MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ....
.....ON US....
......GIVE THANKS MY LORD......
BECAUSE SOME WON'T FORGIVE THEIR ENEMIES.....
Boss 10 years ago

Ghana Immigration abd Ghana Health Authority must screen all Foreigners coming to our country especially the Nigerian

Ghana Immigration abd Ghana Health Authority must screen all Foreigners coming to our country especially the Nigerian
nana kofi 10 years ago

Screen those coming in, what about the filthy environment around us? Everywhere, from accra to tamale is shity, thank God we do not see such outbreaks often. we living in shit thats the problem. look at this laughable thing c ...
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Screen those coming in, what about the filthy environment around us? Everywhere, from accra to tamale is shity, thank God we do not see such outbreaks often. we living in shit thats the problem. look at this laughable thing called sanitation day? not in any civilized society!
anthogyam 10 years ago

Why west africa.god sav ghana

Why west africa.god sav ghana
Ugly akufo addo 10 years ago

Oldmen memory is dead , Gooluck was able to contain EBOLA

Oldmen memory is dead , Gooluck was able to contain EBOLA
Prof Francis Dorleagbenu 10 years ago

Ooooh God help us hmmmmmm.

Ooooh God help us hmmmmmm.
Bawa Adam Zaanyaya 10 years ago

May Almighty Allah protect, guird and give us the solution.We are praying to Almighty Allah protect us from all kind of (mystrery deseases) dengerous and any kind of strenge disease.Aameen

May Almighty Allah protect, guird and give us the solution.We are praying to Almighty Allah protect us from all kind of (mystrery deseases) dengerous and any kind of strenge disease.Aameen
GBEWAA 10 years ago

THE WEST IS BROKE, SO THIS IS A FIELD DAY FOR THEM TO HELP THEIR MULTI-NATIONAL DRUG COMPANIES MARKET THEIR DRUGS TO AFRICA'S CORRUPT LEADERS.

HOPE THESE WESTERN DOCTORS HAVE NOT "PLANTED" ANOTHER DEADLY DISEASE IN NIGERIA ...
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THE WEST IS BROKE, SO THIS IS A FIELD DAY FOR THEM TO HELP THEIR MULTI-NATIONAL DRUG COMPANIES MARKET THEIR DRUGS TO AFRICA'S CORRUPT LEADERS.

HOPE THESE WESTERN DOCTORS HAVE NOT "PLANTED" ANOTHER DEADLY DISEASE IN NIGERIA OSTENSIBLY TO "TREAT" EBOLA SUFFERERS.

READERS SHOULD REMEMBER THAT THE WEST IS BROKE, SO THEY ARE LOOKING FOR EVERY BUISNESS AVENUE FOR THEIR MULTI-NATIONAL DRUG COMPANIES TO MARKET THEIR ADDICTIVE PRODUCTS.

NIGERIA BEING AN OIL-RICH COUNTRY WITH A MASSIVE POPULATION AND HIGH ILLITERACY RATE, AND CURSED WITH CORRUPT SUCCESSIVE GOVERNMENTS, WILL NATURALLY BE THEIR NUMBER ONE TARGET.

THESE DAYS, NOT MANY COUNTRIES ARE BUYING ARMS FROM THE WEST, SO THIS IS THEIR ALTERNATIVE STRATEGY.
Diplomacy 10 years ago

we need solution not insults please honourable people

we need solution not insults please honourable people
White Man 10 years ago

Foolish Nigerians If its not Magic for church it is 419...if its religious fight it is Tribal war...... If its not a curse it is mysterious disease killing you Bomboklat wal Bomboshit

Foolish Nigerians If its not Magic for church it is 419...if its religious fight it is Tribal war...... If its not a curse it is mysterious disease killing you Bomboklat wal Bomboshit
peeeeee 10 years ago

Serious words @amaghaddafi

Serious words @amaghaddafi
FOYOOSIS 10 years ago

If this news report is true, then it should be a proof to attribute the shocking death of an acquiantance to the "mystery disease".

This is a guy who is said to have travelled from Nigeria, where he's been residing for the ...
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If this news report is true, then it should be a proof to attribute the shocking death of an acquiantance to the "mystery disease".

This is a guy who is said to have travelled from Nigeria, where he's been residing for the past 7yrs to Ghana to cure himself of a disease, then decided to go back to Nigeria to collect his belongings only to meet his death a few days ago.

I hope the authorities in Nigeria will soon come out with the cause of this deadly disease and find quick cure to it.

Meanwhile, may the souls of the victims of this unidentified killer disease rest in peace!
nii ato-quaye kasablofo 10 years ago

i suspect someone is selling some bad batch of pharmaceutical drugs.

i suspect someone is selling some bad batch of pharmaceutical drugs.
Osofo sika 10 years ago

Check bbc websites .

Check bbc websites .
Tekonline.org 10 years ago

"he World Health Organisation (WHO) says pesticide poisoning is the probable cause of 18 mysterious deaths in south-western Nigeria.
Those who died in Ondo state suffered from blurred vision and headaches, and then lost cons ...
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"he World Health Organisation (WHO) says pesticide poisoning is the probable cause of 18 mysterious deaths in south-western Nigeria.
Those who died in Ondo state suffered from blurred vision and headaches, and then lost consciousness before dying within 24 hours.
A spokesman for the WHO said tests done so far had been negative for viral and bacterial infections.
He said the current theory was that the deaths were caused by weedkiller.
The outbreak started in the town of Ode-Irele.
All of those affected started showing symptoms between 13 and 15 April.
The WHO spokesman, Gregory Haertl, tweeted: "Current hypothesis is cause of the event is herbicides" and "Tests done so far are negative for viral and bacterial infection."
The tests were carried out at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, the WHO said."

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