{"id":238,"date":"2014-08-16T08:28:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T08:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=238"},"modified":"2014-08-16T08:28:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T08:28:28","slug":"nigeria-replies-us-govt-on-the-efficacy-of-ebola-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Replies US Govt on the Efficacy of Ebola Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/onyebuchi-chukwu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-239\" alt=\"onyebuchi-chukwu\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/onyebuchi-chukwu.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"116\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contrary to the wide held opinion by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that trial and experimental drugs being administered in West African countries including Nigeria, on Ebola patients may lack clinical standards,\u00a0 the Federal Government Friday said such comments were not helpful.<\/p>\n<p>FDA had on Friday said that the \u201cby law, dietary supplements cannot claim to prevent or cure disease.\u201d<br \/>\nThe agency in a statement observed that\u00a0 \u201cindividuals promoting these unapproved and fraudulent products must take immediate action to correct or remove these claims or face potential FDA action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement came on the heels of the federal government\u2019s move to promptly attend to the Ebola patients,\u00a0 where it ordered Nano Silver Experimental Drugs,\u00a0 which some believed have the potentials of relieving the patients.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu had Thursday in Abuja told journalists that an experimental drug, Nano Silver procured by a Nigerian scientist was already on the way to Lagos to be administered on Ebola patients receiving care and treatment there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to the wide held opinion by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that trial and experimental drugs being administered in West African countries including Nigeria, on Ebola patients may lack clinical standards,\u00a0 the Federal Government Friday said such comments were not helpful. FDA had on Friday said that the \u201cby law, dietary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/onyebuchi-chukwu.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-3Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}