Another Man Infected With Ebola Virus In Lagos Nigeria: Patrick Sawyer’s Aide is

Another Man Infected With Ebola Virus In Lagos
State Nigeria: Late Liberian, Patrick Sawyer’s
Aide Shows Signs Of Infection
Less than 7 days after the death of a Liberian
Health Official who came to Nigeria for a
conference, another case of Ebola infection has
been reported.
An airport personnel who helped the deceased
out of the airplane on arrival in Lagos has
showed signs of infection.
The latest victim, who was said to have helped
the late Sawyer, but has not yet been named,
was among the 59 persons the Federal
Government and the Lagos State Government
registered to have had contact with the late
Sawyer immediately on his arrival in Nigeria on
Sunday, July 20.
Early symptoms of EVD include fever, headache,
chills, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, sore throat,
headache and joint pains, while later symptoms
include bleeding from the eyes, ears nose, and
the mouth as well as the rectum, eye swelling,
swelling of the genitals and rashes all over the
body that often contain blood. It could progress
to coma, shock and death.
As at four days after Sawyer’s death in Nigeria,
precisely, Monday, July 27, the Lagos State
Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, said 20
of the 59 people registered to have had contact
with Sawyer had been physically screened. He
said 50 per cent of these 20 people had type
one contact with Sawyer and 50 per cent had
type two contact.

(Photo)8-month Old Baby Stabbed 90 Times With Scissors By His Mother

Eight months old Xiao Bao was stabbed 90
times in the face with scissors by his mother
for biting her while she was breastfeeding him.
The incident that has left many people shocked
happened in Xuzhou, in the eastern China
Jiangsu province. After the attack, the mother
disappeared leaving the infant in a pool of his
blood in the yard of their home. Xiao was found
by his uncle who rushed him to the hospital.
The baby needed more than 100 stitches. The
mother, who has since been arrested, is not
known to be suffering any kind of mental
illness.
There's a thin line between some humans and
wild animals dont you think?
Do we still have parents like this in this world?
if you were a family member what would you do
or say ?

River Mysteriously Turns Blood-Red In China. (Photos)

All I think of is Egypt and Exodus. So, a river
mysteriously turned blood-red in Eastern China
yesterday. Residents of Zhejiang first noticed
the crimson colour in early Thursday and
according to them, the river colour was normal
around 5am but one hour later, it turned to red.
Investigators from the Wenzhou Environmental
Protection Bureau concluded that since a food
colouring company, a clothing shop and a
paper manufacturer is along the river, it's
possible someone dropped a colouring in the
water.
"We suspect that somebody dumped artificial
colouring in the water because he thought the
typhoon yesterday would cause heavy rain, and
nobody would notice. It turned out there
wasn't heavy rainfall yesterday, so the
evidence is left behind."
Ironically, this strange incident has turned out
to be a blessing to locals within the area.
"The really weird thing is that we have been
able to catch fish because the water is normally
so clear," one villager revealed.

Woman Gets 26 Stitches After Husband Beats Her Severely Over A Piece Of Fish(photo)

Mrs. Fatima Bankole, 34, has been battered by
her husband, Alhaji Kamoru Bankole, for daring
to take a piece of fish from the pot to break her
fast some days ago. The victim is the first of
his three wives, at their residence in Alasia,
Ijanikin in Lagos State.
The attack happened on the 16th of July, when
the third wife reported to their husband that
their senior wife took a piece of fish from the
soup to break her fast. The husband, according
to witnesses, did not listen to her excuse before
attacking her.
According to the victim, Mrs. Fatima Bankole,
their husband had always physically abused
her, but the incident of July 16th was more
brutal.
She narrated that they had made a roster
between two wives, due to the absence of the
third wife who was away at the period, to cook
for 15 days each. The victim said she had
completed her period, and it was turn of the last
wife. She said they would normally serve the
husband first, followed by the children before
the wives would serve themselves.
On the day she was to be attacked, Mrs. Fatima
said the last wife had finished her cooking and
served their husband and the children. She then
went for her own meal.
But soon after, the last wife complained to her
husband that Fatima took a larger chunk of the
fish in the pot. Their husband, Alhaji Kamoru
Bankole, queried her, but she said that she only
took a little out of it, stating that the fish was in
pieces and mixed in the stew. Her explanations,
however, got her in trouble with their husband.
Alhaji Kamoru, she details, delivered several
punches to her face. She said she bled for
hours and was further locked up in a room for
three days before she escaped.
She said neighbors then took her to the
hospital for treatment. That was the cruelest
from her history of experience of assault by
their husband, Mrs. Fatima said. From
experiences she recounted, she recalled how
her hair was pulled out of her head, which
resulted in grievous head injuries.
Police have now arrested the husband, following
outcry and petitions by the Women Arise civil
group in Lagos. He will be arraigned in court
next week.

EBOLA VIRUS KILLS MAN IN NIGERIA

A Liberian, Patrick Sawyer, who is a consultant at
the Ministry of Finance, who had been quarantined
since falling ill after arriving Lagos for a
conference last Sunday owing to Ebola disease,
has died.
A Liberian government official, who spoke under
the condition of anonymity, said the news of
Sawyer’s death was relayed to Liberia by the
Nigerian embassy on Friday morning.
Saturday PUNCH gathered that Sawyer might have
contracted the virus from his sister, who died at a
Catholic Hospital about three weeks ago. He had
told friends that his sister’s husband had fled the
home after the wife died and that he convinced
him to report to health authorities to check for
signs of Ebola.
The Lagos State Government had announced that
Sawyer was being tested for the deadly Ebola
virus in the Lagos University Teaching Hospital
and the World Health Organisation in Dakar.
Sawyer’s death is the first recorded case of one of
the world’s deadliest diseases in Nigeria.
The virus has killed 632 people across Guinea,
Liberia and Sierra Leone since an outbreak began
in February, straining a string of weak health
system despite international help.
According to World Health Organisation, the virus,
which starts off with flu-like symptoms and often
ends with horrific haemorrhaging, has affected
about 1,048 people and killed an estimated 632
people.
Ebola is both rare and very deadly. Since the first
outbreak in 1976, Ebola viruses have infected
thousands of people and killed about one-third of
them. Symptoms can come very quickly and kills
fast.
On Thursday, a spokesman for the World Health
Organisation in Geneva confirmed Nigeria had
“one suspected case” and samples had been sent
to a WHO lab for testing.
The special adviser on public health to the Lagos
State Government, Yewande Adeshina, told a
news conference that Sawyer had collapsed on
arrival at Lagos airport from Liberia on Sunday.
He was rushed to hospital and put in an isolation
ward.
She said, “The patient was admitted and detained
on suspicion of possible EBV infection, while
blood sample collection and testing was initiated
and results are pending.”
Sawyer’s death comes shortly after reports from
Sierra Leone that the head doctor fighting the
tropical virus has caught the disease. 39-year-old
Sheik Umar Khan, has been hailed as a national
hero by Liberia’s health minister.
Meanwhile, the Federal Government has tracked
down all the passengers that travelled with the
victim in an unnamed Lagos Hospital and are
being investigated.
The government has also placed on red alert all
ports of entry into Nigeria including Airports,
seaports and land boarders following the
discovery of the Virus.
The Minster of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu,
stated this during a joint press briefing held on
Friday evening in Abuja with the Minister of
Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, while confirming
the death of a victim of Ebola Virus at a Hospital
in Lagos.
He said, “All passengers that came in contact with
the patient have been traced and are being
investigated in line with the international health
regulations of the World Health Organization and
in keeping with international best practices.”

Flaws found in privacy-protecting software

San Francisco - Researchers have found a flaw
that could expose the identities of people using a
privacy-oriented operating system touted by
Edward Snowden, just two days after widely used
anonymity service Tor acknowledged a similar
problem.
The most recent finding concerns a complex,
heavily encrypted networking program called the
Invisible Internet Project, or I2P. Used to send
messages and run websites anonymously, I2P
ships along with the specialised operating
system "Tails", which former US spy contractor
Snowden used to communicate with journalists
in secret.
Though a core purpose of I2P is to obscure the
Internet Protocol addresses of its roughly 30 000
users, anyone who visits a booby-trapped
website could have their true address revealed,
making it likely that their name could be exposed
as well, according to researchers at Exodus
Intelligence.
"People shouldn't trust something wholeheartedly
just because Snowden says," said Exodus vice
president Aaron Portnoy. "Generally, we assume
the things we can find, others can find."
Tails launches from a DVD or USB stick and is
designed to maintain privacy even when a
computer or network has been hacked.

-VULNERABLE
Much more than I2P, Tails relies on Tor, the
better-known anonymity system that it uses for
all software connections to the internet.
But leaks in the past year have shown that Tor
is also a major target for the US National
Security Agency and others, and researchers at
Carnegie Mellon University said they could have
identified hundreds of thousands of Tor users.
Those researchers planned to detail their
technique in August at the security conference
Black Hat. After Tor developers complained to
Carnegie Mellon, the university told Black Hat to
cancel the talk.
Tor programmer Roger Dingledine conceded that
the researchers had found a flaw, and he said his
team was now working to fix it before any public
disclosure exposes dissidents and other types of
users on Tor to greater risk of attack.
The I2P flaw will likewise be fixed. A
spokesperson for the I2P project said the group
of developers was still analysing the Exodus
report.
Tails did not respond to an e-mail seeking
comment. It was not clear how many Tails users
would have been vulnerable without Exodus' co-
operation, since the I2P application does not
launch automatically when the operating system
is opened.
Exodus is one of a dozen or more companies
known to sell secret security flaws to intelligence
agencies, law enforcement and other customers
in a controversial marketplace.

-GOVERNMENT CLIENT
But in this case, Exodus alerted I2P and Tails to
the problem and said it would not divulge the
details to customers until the problem has been
fixed. Portnoy declined to say what the company
would do if a government client asked him to
find a similar flaw in the future.
The Tails and Tor episodes show that no
anonymity system is failsafe, Portnoy said, and
those in jeopardy should focus on
compartmentalising their efforts so that a single
breach would not expose everything about them.
"Tor works for most purposes, but a determined
adversary will always find a way," he said.
In one such high-stakes case, the FBI used a
flaw in a Firefox web browser that came bundled
with Tor to identify a man suspected of hosting
child pornography, according to Irish media
reports.
Leaked NSA documents show that the NSA
logged the IP addresses of many Tor users and
may have scanned e-mails for users living
outside of the US and its four closest intelligence
allies, German media reported.

Strange: Python Swallows Antelope Then Spews Out Its Dead Body - Photos

The jaw dropping moment a giant Python
swallowed a baby Antelope was captured on
camera by animal rescuer Nitish Bambhaniya in
the village of Billa in Gujarat, India.
"I got a call in the morning for an Indian rock
python. When we reached the spot, we saw this
massive python. The python had hunted a baby
blue bull and had already eaten 80% of the
bull's body. It is on the edge of an open field,
so lots of locals start gathering there." Nitish
said
As people gathered, with many saying the snake
should be killed as it could be a danger to
them, the snake known as the Indian Rock
Python stopped swallowing the antelope & let
go of its lifeless body.
"Pythons do it so that they can shed body
weight and escape faster. Meanwhile, we
convinced the villagers not to kill the python
and they agreed. Later we caught the python
and handed it over to the forest department
officials." Nitish said
The python was released by the officials in a
nearby forest, before slithering away to freedom.   photos of the action below: