Ebola outbreak: WHO reveals that virus might infect 20,000 people

Thursday, August 28, 2014


Few days ago, i got really ecstatic at reading the news that Nigeria could successfully contain Ebola until we were hit by the knowledge of having a medical doctor in Port Harcourt die of  Ebola and his wife quarantined. 
Making it worse is the fact that the World Health Organization says the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa could infect more than 20,000 people before it is brought under control.
The UN agency said the number of cases could already be four times higher than the 3,000 currently registered.
It also called on airlines to resume "vital" flights across the region, saying travel bans were threatening efforts to beat the epidemic.
So far, 1,552 people in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria have died.

Cryopreservation: Scientists Hope To Resurrect The Dead In The Future


Death is a necessary requirement for every living thing but most people consider death as a single moment when a person is present, and then he or she is not. It is the turning off of life’s switch, typically registered as the moment that person’s heart stops beating.
Today, around 95% of death certificates use this event to note the time of passing, and for the vast majority of human history, this thinking reflected reality. If a person’s heart stopped beating, he or she had been issued a death sentence and in otherwords, there was no bringing them back but it will intrigue you to know that the whites are crazily working hard to be able to resurrect people who have died. This is what they call resuscitation science, some call it cryopreservation.
Now the question is would you ever want to do anything possible to resurrect your loved ones who just died?
While you ponder on that here is what I found out going through BBC, would we ever be able to bring the dead back to life?
It’s amazing how medicine is continually getting better so much so that Those who die today could be cured tomorrow and that can be made possible by the help of cryopreservation.
people are being frozen in liquid nitrogen with the hope of seeing some distant tomorrow or call it the future.
Well If this is new to you, then I will just tell you what cryopreservation is all about.. this is  a process where  cells, or the whole tissues, or any other substances predisposed to damage that is caused by chemical reactivity or time are preserved by cooling to sub-zero temperatures.
Here is how these scientists do it. The organization doing this is called Alcor and the president of Alcor is max more. Now, the company will have an idea of when their members are going to die so they maintain a watch list of members in failing health, and when it seems as though the time has come they send what they call a “standby team” to do just that – stand by the person’s bed until they die. “It could be hours, days, or more!
Once the person in question is declared legally dead, the process of preserving them can begin, and it’s an intense one. First, the standby team transfers the patient from the hospital bed into an ice bed and covers them with an ice.

FALLING IN LOVE WITH THE IDEA OF FALLING IN LOVE

18TH JULY 2013

Woke up this morning with alot on my mind. Its been a crazy week,but i am grateful to be alive. I have been seeing Hadley for sometime now. It's been just two days since i last saw Hadley after the first  meeting. Believe me, i am still in cloud nine, reminiscing on how lucky i have been and how blessed i am now. Maybe i'm moving and thinking too fast or loving the idea of falling in love which should be checkmated because i know how some men tend to take the openness of a sincere woman for granted.

Now, we started out as friends for well over one week and its been really good, getting to know each other and setting standards ( Or i have been the standard setter.... lmao!*). We would most of the time spend long hours in his car talking about everything. I liken him, a smooth talker!
One who is intelligent in and out of his field. That was one of the major attributes that captivated me about him.
Women naturally need men that they can look up to for advise, intellectual stimulation and above all, we look out for men who can keep a conversation going because what we have in most relationships is a situation where the two parties don't talk much but touch more and that's the reason for the huge heartbreaks that we now have in the society. Much time isn't given to discovering each other outside of the bedroom.

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Anyways, back to Hadley!
It was Saturday night at 7pm and i decided to put him to a fisherman's egg sauce with a plate of basmatic rice for the first time. He was thrilled by the act, maybe because it was coming from a woman who has successfully created a name on radio for herself and has got huge fanbase, so, seeing her come to the point of no pride might have been amazing for him plus scary, i guess!
I knew it was too fast but i just didn't want to pretend, make him chase too much ( now i see how wrong i was. Men are built to chase and when you take that away from them, you take away the fun part of the game.)

He felt like someone i had know for decades, the connection was real, beautiful and true so it didn't make sense to make things complicated. We clicked on so many levels, talked about pretty much anything and just being happy and being as real as possible. No one was trying to impress the other!
I couldn't honestly know who i last clicked with like that before and i was loving it.
Hadley was fun, energetic, can be very mushy. He was a man with a very tall dream and was working hard at achieving it. He wasn't a wealthy guy or from a wealthy background and that wasn't a problem for me because i knew that i possibly wouldn't come into a man's life and he remained in the same state that i first met him because he would be supported, the best way possible to reach that goal and same would be required of him for me. Relationship is a team work ("its a we ride or die thing") and most people aren't ready to work hard at it.

More background detail on this guy:
Hadley is a surgeon in the making and he wants to continue in neurosurgery but at the same time he is a rugged business man with herculean plans, really.
The second child in the family of nine (when i heard that, my eyes popped) from one mother. He is majorly the only child carrying the burden of the home just like me (we just have some things in common) plus he is a giver. He wants to be able to help the poor around the world as much as God and life would grant him.

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What surprised me more was the fact that even with the huge responsibility that he's been taking care of, he still finds out time to make tangible and wise investments for his future because according to him:

"i don't want to have to work hard all my life like my parents. I would like to put things in place early enough so that when i become 45 years old i will be able to take my wife on a world cruise." 

Awwwwwwwwww... tell me why i wouldn't cook fisherman egg sauce and rice after one week of correct talk hhehhehheheh. How potentially viable can a man be????

Never did i know that this sweetness will soon turn sour!
Was it my fault? Did i play my best cards too soon? Did i fall too quickly? Was i too real for him? Or was he just fascinated by the idea of getting a celebrity to fall in love with him? Or was he really too busy?
*i pondered a year after*

                                                                                                                       To be continued......

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