The West African Health Organisation says there is urgent need for countries to prepare for emergencies to prevent economic, human and other losses, especially as the region lost 7 billion dollars in terms of cost during the 2014 Ebola epidemic.
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WHO said this marked another milestone in the country’s effort to defeat Ebola, hailing its government, partners and people on the effective, swift response to this latest outbreak
The global health body on Thursday declared the end of the most recent outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Liberia and said all known chains of transmission had been stopped in West Africa
He said: “We are aware of the situation and we have got preliminary reports from the hospital and we are all awaiting the result of the blood samples
Dr. Moses Massaquoi, the Liberia Case Management Team Leader for Ebola Task Force, on Friday confirmed in Monrovia that the…
A statement from Dr. Yuri Nakamoto on behalf of the scientific committee of the conference, organised by the Pasteur Institute, Paris, said the report was one of the items discussed at the two-day conference
The last confirmed death in Liberia was on 27 March. On Saturday the World Health Organization said in a statement: “The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Liberia is over
Liberia’s Information Minister, Lewis Brown, said the trial to test two vaccines from GlaxoSmithKline and New Link/Merck began on Monday in Monrovia at the government-run Redemption Hospital
Koroma said since the worst outbreak on record began in West Africa over a year ago, Sierra Leone has recorded more than 10,340 cases
Ciatta Bishop, Head of the National Ebola Burial Team, disclosed on Thursday in Monrovia that the cremation and burial teams collected over 2,800 bodies across the country during the process for burial and cremation
The District Medical Officer of Kailahun, James Squire, on Monday announced the discharge of the last Ebola patient from the District’s case management centre
This was contained in a statement from the commission on Monday in Accra, Ghana at the opening of a five-day training programme for 150 health volunteer workers
In response an appeal from the African Union, MTN and other leading companies in Africa committed logistical support and in kind contributions as part of the first wave of pledges at a recent Africa Business Roundtable hosted by the AU in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
The Chairperson of the commission, Dr. Dlamini Zuma, told newsmen at the dispatch of 40 medical personnel to Guinea on Wednesday that the response was encouraging
Aylward said that hospital beds in the capital, Monrovia, had been freeing up, the number of laboratory-confirmed cases had remained stable and the number of burials had fallen
Meanwhile, Mali has confirmed its first case of Ebola after a two-year-old girl tested positive for the virus
The CDC said on Wednesday in Washington that authorities were now reaching out to all the 132 flight’s passengers
A World Bank Group analysis of the Ebola epidemic released Wednesday finds that if the virus continues to surge in the three worst affected countries – Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone – its economic impact could grow eight-fold, dealing a potentially catastrophic blow to the already fragile states.