By Ameh Comrade Godwin Barely one month after a Liberian national, Patrick Sawyer imported the deadly Ebola disease into Nigeria, another Liberian citizen has been reportedly diagnosed with the killer disease in Lagos. A Senior […]
A 22-year old man has been suspected of deadly Ebola virus disease in Myanmar. According to the information ministry provided Wednesday, the suspect was working in Guinea and Liberia, two of the worst Ebola-hit West […]
The Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has announced it will dispatch a five man professional medical team to Liberia on Wednesday, August 20, 2014 to help the fight against the deadly Ebola Disease. […]
For many years Ricky Naputi, who at his heaviest tipped the scales at more than 400 kilograms (900 pounds), battled with his food addiction, and at the time of his death hadn't walked on his […]
The World Bank (WB) and the African Union (AU) have outlined four key areas that must form the focus of the emergency response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. They named the four areas […]
The ebola pandemic began in late February in the former French colony of Guinea while UN agencies were conducting nationwide vaccine campaigns for three other diseases in rural districts. The simultaneous eruptions of this filovirus […]
For only the third time in its 66-year history, the World Health Organization has declared a global public health emergency. This time it is for the Ebola outbreak in the three West African countries of […]
ABUJA (Reuters) – A member of staff of the West African regional body Ecowas has become the third person in Nigeria to die of Ebola fever, Ecowas said on Wednesday. Jatto Asihu Abdulqudir, 36, a […]
Dr Margaret Chan addresses the media after a two-day meeting of its emergency committee on Ebola, in Geneva Photo: Reuters (AFP) Clinical trials of vaccines for the deadly Ebola virus should soon get underway […]
BEIJING – China will provide relief worth of 30 million yuan (4.9 million US dollars) to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea as an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus sweeps West Africa.The emergency humanitarian aid […]