Another official claimed that the symptoms showed by the student “are not too different from fever”
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Jonathan Ball, a molecular virologist at the University of Nottingham, said that a single jab that gave even a few weeks of protection could help to contain an Ebola outbreak
Thirty-five of the foreigners are said to be from Congo, which produced the first ever Ebola victim in 1976
While it categorised the travel alert for Nigeria as Level 2, those of other countries were at Level 3
The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, who made the disclosure on Thursday morning, said the widow of the doctor informed the authorities of the death of her husband
We hope that by our action of preventing this gentleman from being extracted from our hospital and traveling to Calabar we have been able to prevent the spread of EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE in Nigeria
With this development, Nigeria now has four persons in isolation who have come down with the disease
The synergy that existed between the Federal Government and the Lagos State Government since the first recorded case of the…
The minister’s position came a few minutes after the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, announced on Wednesday that the country had recorded five new cases of the EVD
Idris, at the conference, eulogised the late senior doctor of First Consultant Hospital, Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh, who prevented the index case, the late Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer, from leaving the hospital after he was diagnosed of the EVD
Nigeria is one of the major destinations in Africa for most international airlines across the globe, with Air France operating multiple flights to different destinations in Nigeria
With the death of Adadevoh, the number of persons who have died as a result of the Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria has risen to five
The health authority in Abu Dhabi said in a statement carried by state news agency WAM that the 35-year-old woman was traveling from Nigeria to India for treatment of advanced metastatic cancer
In a statement, the UN health agency reiterated that the risk of getting infected with Ebola on an aircraft was small and said there was no need for wider travel or trade restrictions
This is coming on the heels of a pronouncement by Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, on Thursday that a Nigerian, Dr. Simon Agwale, has discovered a drug, Nano Silva, for the cure of the fast spreading EVD
Maku had on April 2, 2014, almost four months before Sawyer came into Nigeria, after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting, told Nigerians that the country was prepared for any exigency in case the virus creeps into Nigeria
However, this runs contrary to scientific research that has confirmed that there is no known cure for the Ebola Virus Disease except the two experimental drugs in the United States of America and an inconclusive research carried out in 1989 by a team led by a former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Maurice Iwu
The Vice President of ECOWAS Commission, Toga McIntosh, announced this at a briefing organised by the Nigerian Government for the diplomatic corps on Ebola outbreak in Abuja on Thursday.
McIntosh said the management of the commission took the decision as a precautionary measure to check the spread of the virus
Obama added: “Folks who are from these countries that have even a marginal risk, or an infinitesimal risk of having been exposed in some fashion, we’re making sure we’re doing screening
The Congress is more particularly disturbed that the disease broke out again at a time when the health sector is beset by the on-going doctors’ strike