Tag: Ebola
WHO steps up efforts to curb Ebola outbreaks in Guinea, DRC
With efforts gathering pace to promptly tackle the new Ebola outbreaks in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo…
UN allocates $15m to fight Ebola in Guinea, DRC
The United Nations has allocated $15 million (N5.8 billion) to fight the fresh Ebola outbreaks in Guinea and the Democratic…
WHO begins counter-Ebola vaccination campaign
The immunisation campaign against Ebola commenced on Monday in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the first case was…
Ebola outbreak in Guinea, WHO asked to rush in vaccines
Guinea declared a new Ebola outbreak on Sunday, with the authorities asking the World Health Organisation (WH0) to rush in…
Ebola epidemic strikes again in Congo
Democratic Republic of Congo declared a new Ebola epidemic on Monday in the western city of Mbandaka. The town is…
WHO confirms three fresh Ebola cases in DRC
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recorded three new cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Congo records second Ebola death
The Democratic Republic of Congo has recorded a second Ebola death after seven weeks of no case.
Ebola virus returns
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, has confirmed a case of Ebola virus in Congo…
AfDB approves $1m grant for Uganda to stem Ebola transmission
The African Development Bank has released a $1 million grant to Uganda to help the East African country tackle an…
4 Ebola responders killed in DRC attack
Two attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have killed 4 workers responding to the Ebola outbreak and…
Ebola outbreak: South Africa dismisses report
The South African National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) on Thursday said they have not confirmed any Ebola cases in…
Premium Times Publisher wants special honour for Adadevoh
Mr Dapo Olorunyomi, Publisher of Premium Times online newspaper, has called for special honour to the late Dr Stella Adedevoh,…
Malawi denies reports of first Ebola case
Health authorities in Malawi have dismissed as false reports that the first Ebola case has been recorded in the country’s…
Congo to introduce second vaccine against Ebola in mid-October
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday said Congo would introduce a second vaccine against Ebola from mid-October, as the…
Ebola: Congo to introduce second vaccine
Congo will introduce a second vaccine against Ebola from mid-October, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday, as the…
Ex DR Congo minister under fire over Ebola Funds
Democratic Republic of Congo government is set to probe the former health minister, Oly Ilunga over misappropriation of funds meant…
News of possible Ebola treatment, prevention excites UNGA president
President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Ms Maria Espinosa, “is delighted” by news that Ebola may soon be…
Rwanda denies closing border with Congo DR
Rwanda’s health minister said the border with Democratic Republic of the Congo remained open on Thursday, appearing to contradict an…
Ebola: Tension as second death confirmed in DR Congo
The Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed the case of Ebola in the eastern city of Goma, near the border…
Ebola death toll in DRC rises to 1,540, WHO raises alarm
The death toll in the latest outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has risen to 1,540,…
Ebola: Federal Govt orders total health surveillance at ports, borders
Federal Government has directed port health service officials and other relevant agencies at the points of entry to Nigeria to…
Ebola: WHO to declare international emergency
The World Health Organization (WHO) should and is likely to declare an international emergency over the Ebola epidemic in the…
Panic as Nigeria Prepares for Ebola
Following the two deaths and infection of three others by the raging Ebola outbreak in Uganda that spread from the…
Ebola: Second patient dies in Uganda
Another person has died of Ebola in Uganda, just days after the first case was detected in the country, the…
Number of Ebola cases in Congo exceeds 1,000
The number of Ebola cases in Congo has exceeded 1,000, the country’s health ministry said, as the second-largest outbreak of…
Ebola: 993 cases confirmed, 621 dead in DRC – WHO
As the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) approaches 1 000 cases amid increased violence, WHO…
Alert! Congo faces largest outbreak of Ebola
Democratic Republic of Congo is facing the second largest outbreak of Ebola in history as attacks on clinics pose a…
Panic in Sweden as hospital admits suspected Ebola patient
There seems to be panic among citizens in Sweden after a patient was admitted to hospital with a suspected case…
Ebola: Death toll in DRC hits 357
Death toll, arising from outbreak of Ebola disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has risen to 357 of which…
24 patients flee Congo Ebola center
Democratic Republic of Congo’s health ministry said that 24 patients have fled an Ebola treatment center in Beni on Thursday.…