folk-remedy expertise and a doctorate in Western pharmacology and also the Executive Director of the Bioresources Development and Conservation Programme, and a consultant at Walter Reed Army Hospital in suburban Washington.During the experiment, Bitter kola was reported to have stopped the virus at test tube experiments. Since the outbreak of Ebola virus in Guinea more than 600 victims have been confirmed dead due to the ailment, with only one recorded death case in Nigeria, which is that of Liberian consultant, Patrick Sawyer, who died in Lagos last week.
An Inquirer Washington Bureau reported Iwu who made this discovery, as saying that a cure could be sourced from the same African forests where the disease was identified. It was also gathered that one of the top infectious-disease laboratories in the US was said to have tested the fruit, and said that it passed the crucial and difficult first hurdle. Also a virus expert who heads the effort at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Fort Detrick, Maryland, to find antiviral drugs to fight exotic diseases, John Huggins, said, “It certainly is a promising compound. So far, it’s made it through all the gates that it has been sent through.”But there are many more tests to be done, first on mice in the next few months, and eventually primates, before it would be used on people, Huggins said. We pray a cure eventually comes from this.
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