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Does Ebola discriminate on the basis of race?

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  • Pelicles 9 years ago

    This deadly virus is being tested to see its potency and it will be stored or have already been stored as a biological weapon.

    We have been fooled to believe that its originated from our monkeys, bats etc which is a lie. H ...
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  • MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

    Please read up on the fact-sheets on Ebola put out by the experts from CDC & WHO before you and Dr. Bokor jump to unwarranted and hasty conclusions.

    Before we inject racism into the Ebola issue. I think it would be pruden ...
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  • TOGBE GANYO 9 years ago

    I LIVE IN USA FOR 39 YEARS. SOME TIME DURING KUFOUR'S NPP RULE, I READ UNITED STATES GOVT. NEED A COUNTRY TO SEND ITS LAB MONKIES. KOFFOUR'S CORRUPT NPP MPS WANT TO ACCEPT THESE ANIMALS USED FOR LAB TESTS. THROUGH CONSTANT DE ...
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  • yaw owusu,boston university 9 years ago

    SOME TIMES WHEN I READ COMMENT FROM NEWSPAPERS OR LISTENING TO RADIO STATIONS ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTIONS AND REMARKS MADE BY SOME OF THE SO-CALL GHANAIAN SCHOLARS I FEEL SO EMBARRASSED AS AN AFRICAN OR A GHANAIAN.THIS IS THE TIM ...
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  • An illiterate Yaw Owusu 9 years ago

    There is no sense in what you've written here. You can't even express your idea intelligently. Who will need a round-table conference to involve you?

  • DAN 9 years ago

    PROBLEMS IN GHANA AND AFRICA ARE SAME THAT HAS BEEN AROUND FOR 40-50 YEARS..NOT ENOUGH HOSPITALS FOR REGULAR CARE MUCH LESS EPIDEMICS! WATER SYSTEMS MUST BE BUILT,WASTE REMOVAL SYSTEMS BUILT( DIRTY WATER AND RUBBISH)...UNTILL ...
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  • insight to the bone 9 years ago

    this curse is upon us because of this fa ma nyame attitude which is just a poor excuse for doing nothing

  • Thomas 9 years ago

    You really at Boston University, Yaw Owusu?

  • Kofifi 9 years ago

    Yaw, are u sure u are at a university? even if u are a janitor there i believe u wont need a pass book or pay to use their library. get some education and stop spewing garbage online. i just don't get why some of us will do a ...
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  • DAN 9 years ago

    THEY CHECK MONKEYS AND RATS FOR USE OF DRUGS TO STOP HIV AND NOW EBOLA..tHE EBOLA DRUG IS BEING GROWN INSIDE OF TOBACCO PLANT NOW!

  • Hayford 9 years ago

    You are really an idiot and your 39 years in USA has been a waste. What about the ebola outbreak in 1976?

  • Tekonline.org 9 years ago

    Well-stated, Marcus.

    There could have been far simpler ways of wiping out the African race if that crazy thought had existed in the West.

    Millions would have easily perished if there had been an embargo on antimalarial ...
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  • LKING LOMOTEY 9 years ago

    Bokor intentionally wrote this dumb article, knowing fully well that the morons will wholeheartedly buy it. And the nation suffers for it, for the stupid article doesn't increase the knowledge of what we need to know about t ...
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  • Pelicles 9 years ago

    Before former president Clinton left office, I remember very well that he called some four black men all in their 70s to the White House and apologize to them. Why the apology? They were being used as "guinea pigs" by the f ...
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  • Tekonline.org 9 years ago

    The biological processes that cause such epidemics are well known. The Ebola virus might appear as something novel, but in reality it belongs to a family of similar viruses that have been known for almost 50 years.

    Please ...
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  • Pelicles 9 years ago

    Can you give me the historical background of HIV? I still stand by my opinion that Ebola is man-made and it is being tested to see its potency.

  • MARCUS AMPADU 9 years ago

    The unfortunate fact is that people like Togbe Ganyo, Pelicles. and Dan wouldn't take time to read what you've written, and wouldn't even understand what you wrote if they take the time to digest what you are saying. Folks, w ...
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  • Pelicles 9 years ago

    Did Tekonline.org come out with that finding or someone wrote for him to read and believe what it? I stand by what I said that Ebola is a man-made virus. Can you tell me what was said about HIV in the initial stages?

    We a ...
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  • Kojo T 9 years ago

    Whites are immnuned just as Black are immuned to malaria

  • Tekonline.org 9 years ago

    Kojo, did you really mean Blacks are immune to malaria?

    (You could however put an evolutionary spin on the link by saying Africans evolved to carry the Sickle Cell mutation as some protection against malarial infection).
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  • DAN 9 years ago

    AND EUROPE..IF THEY ARE NOT ENOUGH CLEAN WATER TO DRINK IN AFRICA HOW CAN YOU EXPECT A DOCTOR TO WASH ENOUGH BETWEEN PATIENTS AND ARE THEY EVEN ENOUGH RUBBER GLOVES???

  • Tekonline.org 9 years ago

    Mike,
    More than likely, it is the superior medical care at the US intensive care unit at Emory together with the administration of Zmapp.

    The news outlets only mentioned Zmapp, but you can bet every symptom elicited by th ...
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  • CITIZEN ONE 9 years ago

    Anybody who buys into a white mans conspiracy theory is a monkey and perhaps needs to be treated as such. A lab monkey for Ebola test.

    I wish the west will for once abandon us and allow our useless intellectuals to die lik ...
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  • FARRASINNO 9 years ago

    THERE IS A RACE WAR GOING ON WHICH, UNFORTUNATELY, MOST BLACK PEOPLE ARE NOT AWARE. THESE IGNORANT BLACK PEOPLE ARE EVEN CONTRIBUTING TOWARDS THEIR OWN DEMISE WITHOUT REALISING IT.DO YOU THINK AIDS WAS AN ACCIDENT? WHAT ABOUT ...
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  • CITIZEN ONE 9 years ago

    I know for a fact that with inferiority complexes, and malfunctioning brains such as yours, we should be losing the race way.

    So i am to assume that white people sat in a room and conspired to send a few suicide effectors ...
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  • Tekonline.org 9 years ago

    Basic Biology taught us that viruses are neither living nor nonliving, but somewhere in between.

    And therein lies the problem -- how do you kill a NONLIVING thing?
    How would you kill a metal spoon or a piece of rock?

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  • Says Who 9 years ago

    I do not subscribe to any of the arguments, but a rock or metal spoon are categorically inanimate objects and cannot be likened to viruses.

    Secondly, strains of viruses can be created through mutation or altering its ambie ...
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  • Tekonline.org 9 years ago

    I think you got it all wrong. But it is not really your fault. I should have emphasized that, that particular comment had nothing to do with Mike's write-up. It was a side note about a more fundamental issue, perhaps philosop ...
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  • Akwasi 9 years ago

    What will you say if US had come to Africa when there was no ebola outbreak with Zmapp to test on us after testings on monkeys. You will cry hell and say we were being used as guinea pigs. It is not easy man - if they use us ...
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  • HE`S NOT AFRAID 9 years ago

    DOES EBOLA DISCRIMINATE ON THE BASIS OF RACE?

  • ADNURUG 9 years ago

    ...NO/NAO

  • YAA ANANE 9 years ago

    A lazy illiterate with a computer is very harmful indeed.

  • YAA ANANE 9 years ago

    likewise your whore mother without a client;.

  • Clement B. 9 years ago

    I think mind set like yours is the reason we are at the bottom of the pegging order. A well educated individual like you, should use his time to undertake scientific research about the disease Ebola and educate people about i ...
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