Google on Saturday celebrated Late Dr Stella Adadevoh, the Physician whose expertise and heroic efforts curbed the spread of Ebola in Nigeria in 2014. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that a Google Doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the logo on Google’s homepages that commemorates holidays, events, achievements and people. “Born in Lagos, […]
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DR Congo Health Minister Oly Ilunga hailed the effectiveness of vaccines administered to vulnerable people An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo is just weeks away from being defeated, after claiming 29 lives, the country’s health minister said Thursday. The “countdown” has begun, Oly Ilunga, said, noting that “all […]
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Two Ebola survivors in Sierra Leone filed a lawsuit in a regional court on Friday, accusing the government of mismanaging funds during an epidemic that killed more than 3,000 people in the West African nation. More than 11,300 people died in total during the worst outbreak of the highly contagious disease, which mainly affected Guinea, […]
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Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria on Monday declared that all measures adopted in 2014 to curtail the spread of the dreaded Ebola virus at airports across the country had been adequately fortified. It also assured passengers and other users of their safety at the nation’s airports following the World Health Organisation’s recent announcement on the […]
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed the death of one person in the latest outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DPR). The Congo Ministry of Health notified the WHO of nine suspected cases of Ebola in the Aketi territory, in the northeastern province of Bas-Uele, WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier said. NEWSTAGE […]
Read More A new outbreak of the Ebola virus is “inevitable” but a new vaccine and rapid-response measures mean it will be more effectively contained, the head of the World Health Organization said Thursday. The Ebola crisis that began in December 2013 killed 11,300 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia and has left thousands more survivors […]
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Scottish nurse who survived Ebola after working in Sierra Leone said on Wednesday that her return to the country to raise money for orphans and survivors would offer her some “closure”. Pauline Cafferkey, 39, contracted the virus in December 2014 when she was working in a treatment facility in Sierra Leone at the height of […]
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The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Republic of Guinea Ebola-free again, today. “Forty-two days have passed since the last person confirmed to have Ebola virus disease tested negative for the second time,” WHO said in a statement. “Guinea now enters a 90-day period of heightened surveillance to ensure that any new cases are identified […]
Read More [su_dropcap]A[/su_dropcap] five-year-old boy tested positive for Ebola in Liberia just days after his mother died of the virus in the second flare-up to hit West Africa in recent weeks, the health ministry said on Sunday, Reuters report. A 30-year-old woman died of Ebola in Monrovia last week, months after Liberia was declared free of the […]
Read More IN the latest flare up of Ebola virus that has killed more than 11,300 people in Sierra Leone and Liberia since 2013, a fourth person has died as the WHO declared a flare-up of the virus in neighbouring Sierra Leone over “The young girl who was hospitalized at the Ebola treatment center in Nzerekore is […]
Read More TWO people from the same family have died from Ebola in Guinea, the government said Thursday, as the WHO declared a flare-up of the virus in neighbouring Sierra Leone over. Test samples from the two patients “revealed the presence of the Ebola haemorrhagic fever virus”, the government said in a statement, while officials feared further suspected […]
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Guinea has been declared free of Ebola by the World Health Organization (WHO), two years after the epidemic began there. Guineans are expected to celebrate the landmark with concerts and fireworks. The disease killed more than 2,500 people in the country and a further 9,000 in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Sierra Leone was declared free […]
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