LASG REAFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO END TUBERCULOSIS IN COMMUNITIES IN LAGOS STATE. (PHOTOS). #PRESS RELEASE.

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 LASG REAFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO END TUBERCULOSIS IN COMMUNITIES IN LAGOS STATE The Lagos State Government on Tuesday reaffirmed its commitment to completely eradicate Tuberculosis (TB) at the grassroots level across the metropolis.  The Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Health District III, Dr. Monsurat Adeleke made this known during a courtesy visit by the Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria team to her Ikoyi office, emphasising the present administration's commitment to continually prioritise health security across the state. She said the Lagos State First Lady, Dr. (Mrs.) Claudiana Sanwo-Olu, is a Tuberculosis (TB) champion with the mandate of ending TB now and the continuous expansion of TB scale-up diagnostic centres.  According to her, “The First Lady of Lagos State, Dr. (Mrs.) Claudiana Sanwo-Olu is a TB champion. We, the team at the Lagos State Health District III, are satisfying Madam First Lady in achieving our TB mandate. Every day, when we turn on our TV we see ...

DO YOU KNOW,YOU MIGHT CONTACT EBOLA THROUGH UNPROTECTED SEX?.

                     According to World Health Organization {W.H.O},who published a text on social media May 8 2015 that ''Sexual transmission of the Ebola virus,from males to females,is a strong possibility,but has not yet been proven.Less probable,but theoretically possible,is female to male transmission.Studies have shown that Ebola virus can be isolated from semen up to 82 days after symptom onset and a recent case investigation identified genetic material {RNA}from the virs by nucleic acid amplification tests {such as RT-PCR} 199 days after symptom onset.This is well beyond the period of virus detectability in the blood of survivors and long after recovery from illness.The detection of virus genetic material many months after symptom onset is assumed to reflect the continuing or at least very recent presence of live and potentially transmissible Ebola virus.In support of the view that Ebola virus can be transmitted via semen,a single instance of heterosexual transmission of the related Marburg Filovirus,from a male survivor to a female partner,was reported during an outbreak in 1967.Ebola virus RNA has also been detected by RT-PCR in vaginal fluid from one woman 33 days after symptom onset.Live virus has never been isolated from vaginal fluids with such limited data,it is not known for how long virus typically persists in vaginal fluids or whether it can be sexually transmitted from females to males''.

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