Ebola ravaging villagers kill eight aid workers, journalists

At least eight Ebola aid workers and journalists were reportedly murdered and dumped in a latrine in a remote village in Guinea in a frightening example of the growing distrust locals have of foreigners coming to help stem the mushrooming health crisis. These deaths are believed to be the first resulting from resistance to international […]

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Ebola may become airborne, about 22 million people at risk

AS Nigeria continues to scramble in search of ways to curtail the spread of the now-dreaded Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), following the death and infection of victims in Lagos and Rivers states, fresh indications have emerged that the disease could assume a more dangerous dimension, putting the entire world at greater risk. In a report […]

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Nigeria may have successfully curtailed the spread of Ebola – Minister

Minister of health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, has announced that there is “no single current” case of Ebola in Nigeria. But he said a suspected case in Ife, Osun state, was being investigated, while many other people were still under quarantine. Chukwu also confirmed that wife of the late Port Harcourt doctor who treated a primary […]

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EBOLA: Nigeria has successfully treated 11 patients – FG

The federal government has announced that it has successfully treated 11 Ebola patients. In a press conference held yesterday in Abuja, Health Minister, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu gave an update on the virus, he told journalists that all the cases that have been confirmed in Nigeria are traceable to the index case, the Liberian-American, Mr. Patrick Sawyer. He said, […]

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Blood of Ebola survivors’ can be used to treat others -WHO

The blood of patients who recover from Ebola should be used to treat others, the World Health Organisation has announced. West Africa is facing the largest Ebola outbreak in history and more than 1,900 people have died. A global group of experts have been meeting to assess the experimental therapies that could contain Ebola. The […]

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Shoddy Response To Ebola Causing Needless Deaths In W/Africa, Says World Bank

The world’s “disastrously inadequate response” to West Africa’s Ebola outbreak means many people are dying needlessly, the head of the World Bank said on Monday, as Nigeria confirmed another case of the virus. In a newspaper editorial, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said Western healthcare facilities would easily be able to contain the disease, […]

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Ebola kills Five Scientists Studying how to contain the virus

Five co-authors of the latest study on Ebola were killed by the virus before their research was published, highlighting the huge risks undertaken by those working to combat its spread. The study, published on Thursday, discovered the virus has mutated many times during the outbreak in West Africa, making establishing a treatment more difficult. Mbalu […]

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Ebola: 50 contacts of Dr Enemuo at high risk —Rivers govt

RIVERS State government has classified 50 people as high risk contacts, saying they are currently placed under observation through its contact tracing committee. Three out of the 50 contact, it said, have also been identified and quarantined as in-house patients at the Ebola isolation unit at Edoha, in Emohua Local Government Area of the state. […]

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