Tag: Ebola virus
Ebola: FG stops dead bodies from coming into Nigeria
Kazeem Ugbodaga Following the threat posed by the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, the Federal Government has issued an order stopping…
Ebola Death Toll Climbs To 729
Oluremilekun Osobu-Asubiojo, Jethro Ibileke/with Agency Report The World Health Organization, WHO, has announced that the death toll from the Ebola…
Philippines monitors arrivals from west Africa for Ebola
The Philippines said Friday people arriving from west African countries hit by the Ebola outbreak would be monitored for a…
Ebola: Immigration maintains intense screening at ports
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) says it is maintaining strict screening of visitors at airports, seaports and border areas to…
US hospital prepares to receive Ebola patient
A hospital in the southern United States said Thursday it was preparing to receive an Ebola patient “within the next…
Ebola: Nigeria quarantines 2, place 69 under medical surveillance
Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu said the ministry has quarantined two people who had “primary contact” with a man who…
Ebola specimen floods LUTH laboratory
By Oluremilekun Osobu-Asubiojo Reports from the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) revealed that blood and fluid specimens of suspected Ebola…
The Threat Of Ebola Disease
The Ebola epidemic, which has killed over 600 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria, has become a regional…
Ebola Scare: Nigerians Want Jim Iyke Tested
Funsho Arogundade & Kazeem Ugbodaga Nollywood star, Jim Iyke is in the eye of the storm as many Nigerians are…
No fresh case of Ebola in Lagos
Lagos State Government on Wednesday again reiterated that no fresh case of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease has been found…
Ebola Virus: Churches, Healers Warned
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Federal and Lagos State Governments have warned churches and healing homes that specialise in miracles to beware…
Liberian football halted over Ebola fears
The Liberian football association LFA said Tuesday it has suspended all activities in the country as a measure to prevent…
Head doctor at S. Leone Ebola clinic dies of virus
A doctor in charge of an Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone has become another victim of the deadly virus,…
Ebola: Liberia closes borders
Liberia closed most of its borders on Monday in a bid to halt the spread of Ebola virus. The authority…
Ebola Virus: NCAA suspends Asky operations to Nigeria
By Simon Ateba The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, on Monday said it has suspended all operations to Nigeria by…
Nigeria Ambassador, 58 Others Had Contact With Ebola Victim
Kazeem Ugbodaga Nigeria Ambassador to Liberia, Chigozie Obi-Nnadozie and 58 others have contact with, Patrick Sawyer, the victim of Ebola…
Arik to suspend flights to Liberia, Sierra Leone over Ebola virus
Arik Air on Sunday said it would suspend flight operations to Monrovia in Liberia and Freetown in Sierra-Leone on Monday…
Liberia closes borders and steps up Ebola screening
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has announced the closure of most of the Ebola-hit country’s land borders, with stringent medical…
American doctor catches Ebola virus in Liberia
An American doctor battling West Africa’s Ebola epidemic has himself fallen sick with the disease in Liberia, his aid agency…
Nigeria: Facts to know about ruthless Ebola virus
The Ebola virus plaguing west Africa, which has killed at least 660 since the worst-ever outbreak began there in January,…
Liberian with Ebola-like symptoms dies in Nigeria
A Liberian man hospitalised in Lagos with Ebola-like symptoms has died, an official said Friday, without confirming the virus was…
Ebola Virus Hits Lagos
By Kazeem Ugbodaga The deadly Ebola Virus Disease which has killed over over 500 people in West Africa has hit…
Preventing Outbreak Of Deadly Ebola Virus
By Sola Ogunmosunle It is a terrifying development that Nigeria is at risk of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease epidemic.…
West Africa Ebola toll hits 603 as 68 more die
The death toll in West Africa’s Ebola outbreak has risen to 603, the World Health Organization (WHO)) said on Tuesday,…
W. African nations in crisis talks as Ebola spreads
Health ministers from across western Africa gathered on Wednesday to plan “drastic action” against the world’s deadliest-ever Ebola epidemic as…
Ebola virus hits Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone on Monday confirmed its first death from Ebola and said it was restricting travel in some areas to…
Nigerians warned against Ebola virus
The Director of Primary Healthcare in the Anambra Ministry of Health, Dr Chukwudi Okoye, has called on the people to…
WHO moves against Ebola virus in Guinea
The World Health Organisation has launched a raft of emergency measures in Conakry, Guinea’s capital to control an outbreak of…
Ebola virus disease: Nigeria at risk says health minister
Nigeria’s Federal Government said on Wednesday that the spread of Ebola Virus Disease to neighbouring West African countries has put…
Senegal shuts land border with Ebola ravaged Guinea
Senegal closed its land border with Guinea on Saturday to try to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus, which…