Tag: Ebola virus
Doctors Who Went On Strike During Ebola Scourge Demand For Pay
Kazeem Ugbodaga The doctors who were on strike during last year’s Ebola scourge in Lagos, have gone on strike again…
American Ebola patient admitted to US hospital
An American healthcare worker who tested positive for Ebola in Sierra Leone was admitted Friday to specialized hospital near the…
Liberia’s last Ebola patient discharged
Liberia discharged its last confirmed Ebola patient on Thursday, as it reported for the first time in nine months it…
N. Korea to lift Ebola ban on foreign tourists: tour group
North Korea is set to lift a four-month ban on foreign tourism imposed over concerns of the spread of the…
Sierra Leone reports sharp increase in Ebola cases
Sierra Leone said on Wednesday it was seeing a spike in Ebola infections, blaming unsafe burials that threaten to undermine…
Liberians rejoice as Ebola curfew is lifted
It is the early hours of the morning and bars in the Liberian capital are packed as revellers drink, sing…
Schools reopen as Liberia turns page on Ebola virus
Children began returning to school in Liberia on Monday after lessons were delayed for months by the deadly Ebola outbreak,…
Sierra Leone quarantines 700 homes after Ebola case
Sierra Leone placed hundreds of homes in the capital under Ebola quarantine Friday, in a huge blow for its recovery…
Ebola not over yet, new cases soar in Guinea, LIberia, Sierra Leone
The weekly number of new Ebola cases registered across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone rose in the last week of…
Five Ebola cases left in Liberia – Government
Liberia said on Saturday it had just five remaining cases of Ebola, confirming it is close to eradicating an epidemic…
PDP is an Ebola Virus party, says Tinubu
Kazeem Ugbodaga The national leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is…
Ebola death toll tops 8,000
The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in west Africa has risen to 8,153 out of 20,656 cases recorded, the…
Somalia dismisses Ebola Virus rumour
The government of war-torn Somalia has moved to reassure residents that there was no outbreak of Ebola in the country,…
Ebola diagnosed in medical worker in Britain
A healthcare worker recently returned from Sierra Leone was on Monday diagnosed with Ebola by doctors in Glasgow in the…
S.Leone nurses strike over Ebola pay amid lockdown
Nurses at a public hospital in northern Sierra Leone were on strike Thursday to demand hazard pay for treating Ebola…
Fourth UN staff contracts Ebola in Liberia
A fourth member of the UN mission in Liberia, the country hardest-hit by the Ebola epidemic, has been hospitalised after…
How My Prayer Healed Ebola Victim – Kumuyi
Kazeem Ugbodaga Over 100,000 Deeper Lifers were thrown into a state of ecstasy at the weekend as the General Superintendent…
Nigerian peacekeeper cured of Ebola in Netherlands
A Nigerian United Nations peacekeeper infected with Ebola and brought to the Netherlands for treatment has been cured, the Dutch…
Sierra Leone goes door-to-door to fight Ebola surge
Sierra Leone on Wednesday said health workers would go door-to-door as part of sweeping efforts to stem the spread of…
Sierra Leone cancels Christmas as Ebola crisis deepens
Sierra Leone said Friday it was banning any public Christmas celebrations as the spiralling caseload of Ebola infections continues to…
Last known Ebola patient in Mali cured
The last patient to be treated for Ebola in Mali has made a full recovery, a senior health ministry official…
Time names Ebola Virus fighters as ‘person’ of 2014
Time magazine on Wednesday named as its “Person of the Year 2014” the medics treating the Ebola epidemic that has…
Tenth Sierra Leone doctor dies of Ebola
A tenth doctor has died after contracting Ebola in Sierra Leone, the government said on Sunday, increasing alarm over the…
Sierra Leone to jail ‘entire families’ in Ebola crackdown
Sierra Leone warned on Friday it would jail entire families if Ebola victims who appeared to have been washed after…
Ebola: Govt Trains 250 Volunteers
The Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) on Monday began training volunteers to be sent to help to contain the Ebola…
Hollande to be first Western leader in Ebola-hit Africa
French President Francois Hollande will become the first Western leader to travel to a country hit hard by the deadly…
WHO confirms DR Congo Ebola-free
The World Health Organization confirmed Friday that the Democratic Republic of Congo was Ebola-free, as 42 days had passed since…
Ebola-infected Cuban doctor arrives in Geneva
A Cuban doctor infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone arrived late Thursday in Geneva, where he will be treated for…
Mali places over 440 under watch in bid to curb Ebola
Mali says it has placed more than 440 people who may have been exposed to Ebola under surveillance as it…
Ebola-infected doctor ‘extremely critical’ in US
A doctor receiving care United States after falling ill with Ebola in his native Sierra Leone remains in “extremely critical”…