{"id":93501,"date":"2015-02-22T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T06:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=93501"},"modified":"2015-02-21T18:55:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T18:55:38","slug":"theres-no-ebola-chalk-in-ghana-fda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=93501","title":{"rendered":"There’s no ‘Ebola chalk’ in Ghana – FDA"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has dismissed reports \u00a0that Boko Haram has succeeded in contaminating chalks used in Ghana with the Ebola virus.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Mr John Odame-Darkwah, Deputy Chief Executive, Food Safety Division, stated that it was also being circulated that two teachers had died as a result of the inoculation.
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\n[contextly_sidebar id=”EGZToNuj7h0RkKjNocc2OzuV00MxTc0X”]\u00a0The statement noted that “the information is false” and \u00a0asked \u00a0“the general public to disregard it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Odame-Darkwah said the FDA had notified the security agencies to investigate the source of such misleading information.<\/p>\n

He advised the public to desist from circulating such information, \u00a0capable of causing fear and panic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe public may visit the FDA website, www.fdaghana.gov.gh to verify the source of any circulation purported to be originating from the FDA,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He assured the public of FDA\u2019s readiness to ensure the protection of health and safety at all times.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has dismissed reports \u00a0that Boko Haram has succeeded in contaminating chalks used in Ghana with the Ebola virus. In a statement, Mr John Odame-Darkwah, Deputy Chief Executive, Food Safety Division, stated that it was also being circulated that two teachers had died as a result of the inoculation. [contextly_sidebar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,16],"class_list":["post-93501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}