Ebola vaccine goes viral

Facebook posts, tweets, text messages
and even phone calls proclaiming that a
vaccine for Ebola had been discovered swept
across Nigeria yesterday, prompting even more
panic over a disease which has so far claimed
two lives in the country.
According to these messages, a bath of hot
water with some salt is all that is needed to
immunise someone from Ebola. After bathing,
one should also drink some of the water from
the bath.
One message broadcasted over BBM read thus:
“We are asked to put some salt into hot water,
drink little out of the water and use the one
to bath, bcos of the Ebola disease"
Certain messages have also claimed that the
solution can also cure Ebola in those who
already have the disease. There are currently
5 confirmed cases of Ebola in Lagos, with a
high chance of those numbers rising.
There is, of course, no truth to these claims
and this is what has prompted a furious
backlash over social media.
At the time of publishing, the disease has
killed a total of 932 people in West Africa.
Most of these deaths have occurred in Guinea,
Sierra Leone and Liberia. One man has also
died in Saudi Arabia.