The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the development followed an advice by the Commissioner for Health, Prof. Ebitimitula Etebu, to members of the public to wash their hands frequently and maintain higher level of personal hygiene to curtail the spread of the disease
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“I declare on this day, at midnight, the end of the outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever of the Ebola virus in DRC,” the Minister of Health in the country, Oly Ilunga, said in a statement
The platform brings together experts from human health, animal health and environment sectors.
It is expected that the meeting will come up with proposals on combating health emergencies such as Ebola, Lassa Fever and other epidemics for the Ministers to adopt as “One Health”
The Minister of Health said this during an inspection to the airport in Abuja
FAAN gave the assurance in a statement on Monday
The Regional Director of WHO for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, said in a statement on Sunday in Abuja that the organisation would work with the UN and other partners to halt the spread of the disease
The World Health Organisation declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday, saying at least one person had been confirmed dead due to the virus in the country’s north-east
The Minister noted that health care providers and the general public must immediately report any sign of illness to the public health officials immediately
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The source said she has been admitted into the hospital under routine monitoring by the Infectious Diseases Unit for further investigations.
The victim, a 22-year-old female student from Tonkolili District, named Mariatu Jalloh, became ill at the beginning of the year and died on January 12 while living in a house with 22 people
The patient is a 10-year-old boy who lived with his parents and three siblings in Paynesville, a suburb east of the capital, Monrovia, she said
The man who died in the hospital on July 25, 2015, initiated a chain of transmission of the disease that spread from Lagos to Port Harcourt in Rivers State and resulted in 19 other cases and seven deaths
According to Awute, what killed the student had to do with the management of his “lifestyle in terms of what he ate or what he took, which happens now and then”
The statement by Awute said: “Various tests conducted on the deceased’s blood samples confirmed that the deceased was negative for both the Ebola Virus and Lassa Fever Virus
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Official news agency Xinhua had earlier reported the news
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