Fighting #Ebola - using tobacco leaves that is how?!

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Rizal  Philippines   | December 8, 2014

From New Science Mag

From Telesurv - producing millions of doses for Ebola patients

From North Country Publications


 From tobacco leaves to this



Vaccines to fight Ebola


I was able to watch last night the Discovery feature on Ebola.  How it spread early on and how the vaccine was discovered and produced are interesting stories.

1.  Early on Ebola was spread in a health care mission because they reused needles that were not sterilized.  They did not realize also that burying the dead hastened the spread through contact with body fluids and feces.

2.  Dr. Charles Amzhael discovered the vaccine in treating Ebola. 15 years ago.

Noticeable laxity in complying with #Ebola quarantine protocols for returning Liberia OFWs

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Rizal Philippines  |  December 4, 2014

I noticed a laxity in the enforcement of the quarantine protocols for returning OFW from Liberia. Liberia experienced the most death in West Africa.

 The members of the family members were free to roam with the returnees, no protective gear were used and many were requesting that the 21 days period be reduced.

Why 21 days?  Because that's the maximum gestation period of Ebola.  Either you have or you dont have it at the end of the 21 days.   So dear family friends, you can only know if your loved ones will not kill you nor destroy your entire neighborhood after 21 days.  MInd you too that his semen can still carry Ebola and infect the partners with 82 days.  (So mga Ms. watch out.)

It we want to stay an Ebola free country, we have to be strict and practice no non sense discipline.  Small laxity can mean death.  It happened in USA.  It can happen to us...

Dr Jaime Galvez Tan wrote a book on 100 Philippine medicinal plants

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Rizal Philippines   | December 1, 2014



From inquirer

It was mentioned in Salamat Doc program at Channel 2 during the segment that featured Dr. Jaime Galvez Tan, one of the experts on herbal medicine and non traditional med that he recently wrote a book on From farmers notebook



He mentioned the original 10:

1,  Lagundi;
2. Yerba buena
3.  sambong
4.  tsang gubat
5.  bawang
6.  niyog niyogan
7.  ulasimang bato
8.  akapulko
9.  bayabas
10.  ampalaya

Some of those that are included that I have are makabuhay, balbas pusa, saluyot, luyang dilaw

Almost 7,000 have died from #Ebola

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From Yahoo News

From Daily Mail


Can we stop Ebola?



Ebola dead being buried.  Note absence of protective gear by the workers, thus helping further its spread.


It was only 5,000 sometime last month. (see post last 11/18 Ebola deaths exceed 5,000)

  The number of deaths has really jumped.  It is a sad day for disease control and epidemiology.   And for the people of Africa that is saddled with hunger, civil strive, famine and more.

It is a leap of 1,200 from previous report of WHO released Wednesday.   Nearly 16,000 have dangerously infected.


What can be done further?

Many countries have donated like USA.  Cuba, US, UK has sent medical volunteers. What about the rest of the world?



Poster on Ebola



The dead on the street