The outbreak has killed more than 4,500 people in West Africa, mostly in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone
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The news comes as Liberian MPs refused to grant the president additional powers to deal with the Ebola crisis
Panic is spreading across an African community after reports that two Ebola victims have risen from the dead.
It said the death toll has risen to 2,622 in the three countries.
The World Health Organisation said on Thursday in Geneva that the number of people who have contracted Ebola in West…
Britain is edging closer to trialing a vaccine to fight the deadly Ebola virus, with the first human volunteer to be injected with the shot next week.
The United Nations Children’s Fund reports the Ebola crisis in Liberia is having a devastating health, psychological, and social impact on children.
The President of the International Federation of Football Associations, Sepp Blater, on Saturday said the organization would give full support to three West African countries heavily hit by the Ebola Virus Disease.
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
In Nigeria, there have been 21 cases and seven deaths
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
He and fellow missionary, Nancy Writebol, were evacuated from Liberia earlier this month in a plane specially equipped with an isolation tent and accompanied by medical staff outfitted in head-to-foot protective clothing
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
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
The woman, in her 50s, was believed to have flown into Singapore recently and arrived at a hospital emergency department with a fever
Vaz noted that President Jonathan took the first critical step by declaring the disease a national emergency
Mandlhate said that it was therefore crucial for Kenya to tighten surveillance on Ebola virus, adding that the Kenyan Government had decided not to cancel any flights
The World Health Organisation said only around 10 to 12 doses of the drug have been made and this raises difficult ethical questions about who should get priority access
Briefing State House correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday, Maku blamed the development on a nurse who defiled medical directives and travelled from Lagos to Enugu
NewLink Genetics and their subsidiary, BioProtection Systems, were recently given a government contract from the U.S. Defence Threat Reduction Agency, for $1 million to research and speed up the process to begin human clinical testing of their existing Ebola vaccine