By Ambassador T. Brikins
President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, fighting the "demon" of ebola.
The Ebola River in Northern Congo in Northern Democratic Republic of Congo.
“We need empirical solution to the cure of Ebola not
“divine” solution, was the conclusion of Bayo Olupohunda in his article, “Ebola
and a Pastor’s “divine “ solution”.(The Punch, Thursday, July 31, 2014).
But do we need divine solution to the cure of Ebola and
perhaps other diseases?
Scientific empiricism is based on or act on observation or
experiment, not on theory.
Writing on the topic,”
Problems of world civilization, Achievements and limitations of science and
technology” in the classical book, World Civilizations by Edward MacNall Burns, Phiip Lee Ralph, Robert E.Lerner and
Standish Meacham, said, “For solutions
they (Politicians and Civil Servants) have continued to turn, paradoxically, to
those agencies responsible, in many cases, for the creation of the problems:
science and technology.”
Professor Oyewole Tomoro, "...no known vector...".
A world renowned virologists, Professor Oyewole Tomori, President
of Nigeria’s Academy of Sciences and former Vice Chancellor of Redeemers”
University, Mowe, Ogun State, South West Nigeria, who has been working on the Ebola
virus and other viruses said the dangerous ebola virus has no known vector and
that the link to fruit bats and chimpanzees is circumstantial.
"I wouldn't be worried to sit next to someone with Ebola virus on the Tube as long as they don't vomit on you or something. This is an infection that requires very close contact."Dr. Peter Piot, Belgian who discovered the ebola virus in 1976.
"I wouldn't be worried to sit next to someone with Ebola virus on the Tube as long as they don't vomit on you or something. This is an infection that requires very close contact."Dr. Peter Piot, Belgian who discovered the ebola virus in 1976.
Dr. Piot said,
“The main thing is to overcome the fear of the virus and put in place all
possible measures to contain this epidemic and care for the people who are
affected by it. That will require
massive international assistance and work in the communities in addition”.
Is there an empirical
solution to the power of fear?
But the Bible seem to have when it said, in Romans 8:15, “For
ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; …”. Elsewhere, it
talks about the spirit of love and of a sound mind.