Tag: Ebola virus
UCTH closes emergency ward after decontamination
The Management of University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) has temporarily closed its Accident and Emergency (A&E) ward after decontaminating…
Ebola: 10 quarantined in Nigeria
Reuters – Ten people have been quarantined after coming into contact with a patient with Ebola-like symptoms in the southern…
Sierra Leone begins new countdown to Ebola-free status
Sierra Leone has released its last two known Ebola patients and begun a new 42-day countdown to a declaration that…
Liberia struggles to regain economic footing after Ebola
Liberia needs two years to regain its economic footing after it was battered by the Ebola epidemic, as it moves…
New Ebola case in Sierra Leone quarantine village – President Koroma
Freetown (AFP) – Another woman has tested positive for Ebola in a village in northern Sierra Leone already under quarantine…
Clinic opens in Monrovia for Ebola survivors
Eromosele Ebhomele To help fight other ailments that come with surviving Ebola, the disease that ravaged Liberia and its environs…
Buhari urges Africa to unite against Ebola, pledges US$1m
To underscore the importance of Africa ridding the Continent of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) and in the spirit of…
Last four Ebola cases in Liberia discharged from clinic
MONROVIA, (Reuters) – The last four cases of Ebola in Liberia were discharged from a treatment clinic in the capital…
Buhari to join African Leaders at AU Confab on Ebola
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari will be among African leaders and heads of state attending the International Conference on Africa’s…
Ebola: Liberia, others to get $5bn assistance from international community
The international community has pledged more than five billion dollars, to support Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, in their efforts…
WHO can’t handle Ebola outbreak
Experts called on Tuesday for urgent, root-and-branch changes to the World Health Organization after an inadequate response to West Africa’s…
Ebola: Lagos alerts public, calls for precautionary measures
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has alerted the public on the resurgence of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease, EVD,…
Hajj: Bauchi Pilgrims to undergo Ebola, Meningitis screening
All intending pilgrims for the 2015 Hajj operations to Saudi Arabia from Bauchi State would undergo screening for the Ebola…
Ebola cases rise in Guinea, Sierra Leone, says WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO), confirmed on Tuesday that Ebola has spread further in Guinea and Sierra Leone. Bruce Aylward,…
Ebola In Italy: Three more quanrantined
Italian authorities confirmed on Wednesday in Rome that the nurse who tested positive for the Ebola virus after returning from…