Ignorance – a more widespread and dangerous epidemic than ebola

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• Open your eyes 9 years ago

  Yooo...public health be government matter...oooo...dem no de do de wokk, guttah, sh@it everyplace, bolah all basaa. Tank yu fo yu idea. yu be good man, wai

  Yooo...public health be government matter...oooo...dem no de do de wokk, guttah, sh@it everyplace, bolah all basaa. Tank yu fo yu idea. yu be good man, wai

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• SARPONG 9 years ago

  Thank you Tilapia, what a great educational, awareness and a timely warning to authorities to do the right thing before we are confronted with the ebola problem . God has been merciful to us so far we have not been confronted ...
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  Thank you Tilapia, what a great educational, awareness and a timely warning to authorities to do the right thing before we are confronted with the ebola problem . God has been merciful to us so far we have not been confronted with that deadly disease.
  
  As a country, we have not even been able to contain cholera since September last year that has killed 70 people with more than 5000 infected people in seven regions of Ghana with Ashanti and Volta regions where later cases of cholera infections have been recorded with two deaths in Volta region and one in Ashanti region.

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• Tekonline.org 9 years ago

  If I may add one or two items...
  
  (16). Walking barefoot should be discouraged. The ground easily gets contaminated with infected fluids. Walking without footwear welcomes accidental cuts and abrasions, great entry points f ...
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  If I may add one or two items...
  
  (16). Walking barefoot should be discouraged. The ground easily gets contaminated with infected fluids. Walking without footwear welcomes accidental cuts and abrasions, great entry points for the Ebola virus.
  
  17. Effective and aggressive "contact tracing" is what has slowed the EVD infection rate in Nigeria.
  
  The thing is, screening for fever with those contact-free thermoscans is not foolproof. The incubation period of the virus is 2-21 days, which means, in theory, there might not be any fever or other symptoms for as many as three weeks after infection.
  
  So the safest thing to do is to RECORD anybody who directly or indirectly (by checking the passport) enters Ghana from Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and perhaps Nigeria. Just as a precaution.

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• Tekonline.org 9 years ago

  Unless I missed it in the article, engaging in unprotected sex could be a major problem, as the biological drives could still be present during the first phase of EVD symptoms.
  
  So point number 18 could be ABSTINENCE, even ...
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  Unless I missed it in the article, engaging in unprotected sex could be a major problem, as the biological drives could still be present during the first phase of EVD symptoms.
  
  So point number 18 could be ABSTINENCE, even for married couples, when the first phase of EVD symptoms are present. (In the absence of a thermometer in the bedroom, a very warm body could be enough to raise suspicion).
  
  This would not be easy though; we are not biologically wired for abstinence.

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• C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago

  You hit it on the nail: why we are still a country of backward people. Or developing people?
  
  Ignorance and its twin sister, superstition, are, of course, two main cogs in the vicious cycle of underdevt. At the moment, the ...
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  You hit it on the nail: why we are still a country of backward people. Or developing people?
  
  Ignorance and its twin sister, superstition, are, of course, two main cogs in the vicious cycle of underdevt. At the moment, they are both reigning supreme in Ghana, from the one man hamlet to the Castle/Flagstaff House.
  
  Andy-K

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• sad 9 years ago

  its so sad

  its so sad

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