Ghana finds treatment for Onchocerciasis and Elephantiasis

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Boat 10 years ago

Good work!

Good work!
Nana 10 years ago

Fantastic, kudos.

Fantastic, kudos.
Tekonline.org 10 years ago

Projects of national importance!

Projects of national importance!
Onipaba 10 years ago

You guys are not serious. Did u say Docicycline? This antibiotics founded by "gay & lesbians" Americans u despise decades ago. Now your bogus science university is claiming credit for using it to cure dz.

You guys are not serious. Did u say Docicycline? This antibiotics founded by "gay & lesbians" Americans u despise decades ago. Now your bogus science university is claiming credit for using it to cure dz.
Onipaba 10 years ago

Sorry. It's Doxycycline

Sorry. It's Doxycycline
DONBOLI 10 years ago

We have a motelse, prevention is better than cure. Another waste of money.
If the govprevented think it's cool to have animals living with human beings, Elephantiasis will never go away in Ghana.
Why not tell the people of ...
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We have a motelse, prevention is better than cure. Another waste of money.
If the govprevented think it's cool to have animals living with human beings, Elephantiasis will never go away in Ghana.
Why not tell the people of the northern Ghana not to be living with dogs, for its from Dog shit, when stand on gives them Elephantiasis.
A proud government who thinks it cool to give people animals to live with them. Animals lives on farms not in house.
River blindness, why should a country like Ghana still have such a disease when our rivers are dried. It's a fly than can be eliminated easily by spreading on the trees by all rivers.
Stop thinking about treatment and think about prevention. Use the money to get rid of the flies and we wouldn't have to buy the white man medicine.
It's call Exploitation and nothing else. They still want to control our wellbeing by selling what can be prevented.
back door director 10 years ago

Stop exhibiting your ignorance. Dog shit never gives elephantiasis. The filarial worm which causes elephantiasis is transmitted by mosquitoes. Get that into your thick skull.
Donboli also spare us your pseudo populist rhetor ...
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Stop exhibiting your ignorance. Dog shit never gives elephantiasis. The filarial worm which causes elephantiasis is transmitted by mosquitoes. Get that into your thick skull.
Donboli also spare us your pseudo populist rhetoric about prevention. I do not know how old you are but go and read about the oncho control spraying of rivers which started in 1974 and was done for more than 40 years.
Your ignorance knows no bounds because these diseases which are tagged neglected tropical diseases are being tackled now using mass drug administration as a preventive strategy. I will forgive you because the original article should have explained things better
As for your rants about the Whiteman exploiting us it is simple to ask you whether the computer on which you typed your contribution to this forum was manufactured in Ghana.
You like many Ghanaians claim to be nationalists only in name and I describe you as arm chair critics, vulture philosophers, and unrepentant parasites. It is the reason the country is retrogressing.
Finally save your rhetoric about exploitation for other ignorant Western conspiracy theorists. The Black man is always complaining about being cheated yet does nothing. Vultures indeed.
KOSEK 84 10 years ago

i could not agree more Backdoor Director africans are too lazy to read and find things out for themselves relying on ignorant western conspiracy theorist for their backwardness when the real culprits are their selfish, greedy ...
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i could not agree more Backdoor Director africans are too lazy to read and find things out for themselves relying on ignorant western conspiracy theorist for their backwardness when the real culprits are their selfish, greedy, and sometimes clueless leaders who plunder their countries and its resources
Ali, Toronto 10 years ago

One doesn't get oncho or river blindness by stepping in dog faeces -- you get it when bitten by the black fly; and similarly you get elephantiasis from mosquitoes. Now, do you have any suggestions on how to prevent mosquito a ...
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One doesn't get oncho or river blindness by stepping in dog faeces -- you get it when bitten by the black fly; and similarly you get elephantiasis from mosquitoes. Now, do you have any suggestions on how to prevent mosquito and black fly bites?
BONE MARROW 10 years ago

thank u Domboli i support u 100% dats what needs to be done lets prevent it rather dan cure if nt we will continue to waste money on buying drugs when we can easily eliminate de cause easily

thank u Domboli i support u 100% dats what needs to be done lets prevent it rather dan cure if nt we will continue to waste money on buying drugs when we can easily eliminate de cause easily

Pround pepeni. 10 years ago

WELL DONE KNUST

WELL DONE KNUST
Ali, Toronto 10 years ago

I'm a proud alumnus of KNUST (then known as UST), but this is embarrassing – i.e. GHANA FINDS BLAH-BLAH... What was the role of the foreign collaborators and where is their credit? Did KNUST actually develop the antibiotic ...
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I'm a proud alumnus of KNUST (then known as UST), but this is embarrassing – i.e. GHANA FINDS BLAH-BLAH... What was the role of the foreign collaborators and where is their credit? Did KNUST actually develop the antibiotic doxycycline or it’s the product of some foreign pharmaceutical entity? What really was KNUST’s role in all this? A mere executing agent for trials supervised by, or at best, jointly with foreign/German entities that also funded the trials? It would be fair to say “Ghana finds yadda-yadda...” if Ghana (or KNUST) actually developed the drug and established its efficacy on whatever disease.

By the way, is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation giving KNUST Crop Science US$ 2.67 (two dollars and sixty-seven cents?! Or is it perhaps US$ 2.67 million? Lazy journalism except for sensations.
Victor Hugo 10 years ago

Ghanaians are happy that one of our Universities has found the cure for elephantiasis and onchocerciasis. If not for people who volunteered for the researchers to know the efficacy of the drugs,they wouldn't have come this fa ...
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Ghanaians are happy that one of our Universities has found the cure for elephantiasis and onchocerciasis. If not for people who volunteered for the researchers to know the efficacy of the drugs,they wouldn't have come this far. It's rather unfortunate the Ibola vaccine trial at Hohoe iseeting do much resistance. Parliament is full of people with little knowledge in Science and Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh,a product of KNUST is not helping his colleagues understand the situation.
Victor Hugo 10 years ago

Correction: The Ibola vaccine trial at Hohoe is meeting so much resistance.

Correction: The Ibola vaccine trial at Hohoe is meeting so much resistance.
Audrey 10 years ago

Ebola. I know it is a typo. You are so right, you know we are selfish people so why would we volunteer for anything

Ebola. I know it is a typo. You are so right, you know we are selfish people so why would we volunteer for anything
Adongo Tongo 10 years ago

Why do commit intellectual dishonesty? Ghana did not find treatment for anything? Doxycycline (IPA: /?d?ksi?sa?klin/) is a broad-spectrum antibiotic of the tetracycline class that is useful for the treatment of a number of in ...
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Why do commit intellectual dishonesty? Ghana did not find treatment for anything? Doxycycline (IPA: /?d?ksi?sa?klin/) is a broad-spectrum antibiotic of the tetracycline class that is useful for the treatment of a number of infections, including bacterial, protozoal and helminth.

Under the brand name Vibramycin, Pfizer's doxycycline product received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval in 1967. Other brand names include Monodox, Doryx, Adoxa, Doxyhexal and Atridox (topical doxycycline hyclate for periodontitis). It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, a list of the most important medications needed in a basic health system. Don't throw dust into the eyes of unsuspecting Ghanaians.
Ghana1 10 years ago

Mr. Know all,u forgot to add that it is not indicated for the treatment of those helminthic infections... People like u are the cause of Ghana's lack of development well if u didn't know lemme tell u this: what they found is ...
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Mr. Know all,u forgot to add that it is not indicated for the treatment of those helminthic infections... People like u are the cause of Ghana's lack of development well if u didn't know lemme tell u this: what they found is like saying paracetamol has now been known to cure AIDS...Bukulong man!
AA 10 years ago

The article never mentioned that KNUST developed the drug. It says they found that the drug can cure those diseases. There is nothing dishonest or violation of intellectual dishonesty here. Let's learn to READ and UNDERSTAND ...
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The article never mentioned that KNUST developed the drug. It says they found that the drug can cure those diseases. There is nothing dishonest or violation of intellectual dishonesty here. Let's learn to READ and UNDERSTAND what is being conveyed before we begin criticising.
AA 10 years ago

Agree with you Ghana1

Agree with you Ghana1
Ali, Toronto 10 years ago

If maker of a broad spectrum antibiotic puts together a trial, uses your local manpower and expertise for the field trials, and above all pays for the trials to establish that the drug cures a disease, YOU haven't "found" Jac ...
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If maker of a broad spectrum antibiotic puts together a trial, uses your local manpower and expertise for the field trials, and above all pays for the trials to establish that the drug cures a disease, YOU haven't "found" Jack! It wasn't your initiative, you didn't organize it, you didn't pay for it. We all love Ghana to be great, but don't give credit where none is due.

cute shay 10 years ago

Lol at bukulong, am in tears. Great example btw

Lol at bukulong, am in tears. Great example btw
Victor Hugo 10 years ago

Wrong Caption:I wish to contribute to the ongoing debate by stating categorically that the caption is inappropriate. The Oncho center at Hohoe has long since been treating patients with onchocerciasis.I have worked there befo ...
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Wrong Caption:I wish to contribute to the ongoing debate by stating categorically that the caption is inappropriate. The Oncho center at Hohoe has long since been treating patients with onchocerciasis.I have worked there before and l know what l am talking about.The center is on the premises of the hospital but autonomous. It is adjacent to the mortuary.Patients of Poncho normally develop lumps at different parts of the body.Local anaesthesia is done and surgically removed.The lump could consist either of micro or macro filarial worms.Sections are made of them and turned into permanent slides.They are then sent to the parent lab in Germany for further analysis. Patients become fully cured with drugs from Germany which l cannot mention here so 'Another cure for oncho discovered' should have been the caption.
Victor Hugo 10 years ago

Correction: oncho, not poncho

Correction: oncho, not poncho
cute shay 10 years ago

These smart phones, lol

These smart phones, lol
Kofi 10 years ago

Doxycycline is no medical procedure.

Doxycycline is no medical procedure.
kosievi 10 years ago

ye da mo ase

ye da mo ase

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