Posted on 07/24/2014 11:14:34 AM PDT by Kartographer
A Liberian man in his 40s is being tested for the deadly Ebola virus in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos, a mega-city of 21 million people, the Lagos State Health Ministry said on Thursday.
Ebola has killed 660 people across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since an outbreak in February, straining their flimsy healthcare systems despite international help.
A spokesman for the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva confirmed Nigeria had "one suspect case" and said samples had been sent to a WHO lab for testing.
"The Nigerian Ministry of Health has implemented control measures in the meantime," he told Reuters.
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There's a man goin' 'round takin' names. An' he decides who to free and who to blame. Everybody won't be treated all the same. There'll be a golden ladder reaching down. When the man comes around.
The hairs on your arm will stand up. At the terror in each sip and in each sup. For you partake of that last offered cup, Or disappear into the potter's ground. When the man comes around.
Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers. One hundred million angels singin'. Multitudes are marching to the big kettle drum. Voices callin', voices cryin'. Some are born an' some are dyin'. It's Alpha's and Omega's Kingdom come.
Ebola in a city of 21 million people of questionable hygiene.
What could possibly go wrong?
Stay at cane’s length, son!
Well there’s one of the plagues there from the Book of Revelation.
this is the step before the shtf
we need to shut down the borders immediately
or get comfy in your bunker
I have no doubt some Islamic fanatic is in the process of developing an infection kit for a terrorist to inoculate themselves with after they reach this country.
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