Bunmi’s sister, Yemi, said her sister was afraid of contracting the Ebola virus and had since refused to shake hands with anybody, including family members
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This brings to five the total number of patients diagnosed with the Ebola Virus Disease who have now been discharged from hospital
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
Some forces must have watched or instructed Sawyer to leave the quarantine facility, in fact escorted him to the airport straight to our very porous airports
Officials said blood-stained bedding looted from the centre posed a serious infection risk
We can now be extraordinarily confident that the U.S. government is lying, in key material respects, about the latest Ebola outbreak – and not just because it lies about nearly everything of political consequence
The three Nigerians, aged 79, 37 and four, had fever and their tests were being done at the National Centre for Disease Control, Delhi, an official release said
Nigeria is the fourth largest supplier of international students to British universities
The outbreak was reported in Taka-Lafia, a community in Karshi, which borders the Federal Capital Territory
The island, popularly called Monkey Island, by Liberians, has been in existence for several years. However, with the outbreak of the EVD, which has monkeys as one of the primary sources of infection, eyes are turning in the direction of the Island
Chukwu, who had on Thursday announced the arrival of the drug in Nigeria, said it was made available to the Emergency Operations Centre in Lagos on August 14, but it did not meet basic research requirements
Chukwu said that Nigeria had recorded a 12 confirmed cases, four deaths and 189 persons under surveillance in Lagos and six persons under surveillance in Enugu
The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria has approved the reception of Holy Communion in the hand as a precautionary measure…
For now, Ebola patients will jump at the chance to live free of the virus than worry about any side effects in the long term or another outbreak in the future
The Minister made this known at the joint emergency meeting of the National Task Group on Sanitation on Friday in Abuja
Decontee had in her article said though Sawyer did not discuss the reasons for his journey from Liberia to Lagos, Nigeria with her, she reasoned it was to find a cure for his Ebola ailment
Among those that were infected as a result of what was described as the arrogance and denial of Sawyer was a Cameroonian who served as the Director of the St. Joseph’s Catholic Hospital, Bro. Patrick Nshamze
Okubadejo said that Adadevoh, a Senior Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist, was one of those who diagnosed and was treating Sawyer of the ailment when he was first brought into First Consultant Hospital
The NYSC boss, who spoke after inspecting the Delta State Orientation Camp at Issele-Uku in Aniocha North Local Government Area of the state, described as “pragmatic” the above approach to issues concerning the welfare of corps members nationwide
A statement on Thursday by the Deputy Director of Press of the Federal Ministry of Health, Alhaji Isiaka Yusuf, said the suspension of the residency programme became necessary because of the many futile attempts of the Federal Government to talk the doctors out of their strike