U. S.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) suffers huge social media backlash
from Nigerians yesterday, over its description of Nano Silver as a pesticide, a
drug which was recently announced by the country’s Health Minister, Onyebuchi
Chukwu, to be an experimental treatment ofpatients affected with the deadly
Ebola disease.
As
the US FDA’s warning went viral, Nigerians erupted with outrage on social media
as they mostly express the need for their country to protect lives of its
citizenry after US declined giving out its’ Zimapp.One
Joseph Anthony writes, “West made a lot of mistakes on the road to there so
called “state of art medicines”. We had no opportunity to scrutinize Zmapp.
Let’s take a bold step to try something. Nothing is as strong as a proof.We
may try it with rodents and watch out for cultured results or patterns and if
we get the gut feeling to proceed based on the results the why not! Let’s
ignore everyone. For once let’s look inward for solutions we are not toilet to
receive processed products by others.” He endedAnother
commentator, who identifies self as Zuby expressed that when an African says he
can cure AIDS or Ebola they tell him to shut up, say it’s impossible or not
possible without testing it. He stressed that the drug should be offered to one
person who already has Ebola and if it doesn’t work then we know for sure it’s
doesn’t.Abidemi
Adekunle pleaded with America, saying they should be magnanimous enough to
release the very drug that is working for them to other nations now that WHO
has authorised the use of experimental drug.“If
its pesticide, we need it that’s all. How do we come about Ebola? In fact I
guess they cultured the virus and send it to Africa because we rejected gay
marriage. If you could remember that such has been done some years back against
China through SARS” says one Anigbogu OkechukwuFrom
the FDA’s report, it was also revealed that Silver has been in use for
centuries. FDA states that over the years, tiny silver particles known as
nano-silver have controversially been incorporated into a variety of consumer
products such as socks and bedding to help block odors caused by bacteria and
mold over.This
is happening at a time doctors and nurses attending to victims of the deadly
Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, at Mainland Hospital, Lagos isolation centre, downed
tools following allegation of negligence by concerned relatives and associates
of the female medical doctor and health workers who contracted the EVD from the
late Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer.Meanwhile
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, had pleaded with the health workers
on the need to get back to during a media briefing in Lagos, yesterday.Fashola
laments that Lagos State was yet to receive the experimental Ebola drug (Nano
Silver) and a kobo out of the N1.9 billion Federal Government intervention
fund.-
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