•NCDC logo and a health worker The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has said that none of the 62 people exposed to Nigeria’s imported case of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) developed the infection after completing the mandatory 21-day monitoring period. The agency disclosed this today, announcing the...
•Health care workers Africa’s latest Ebola outbreak has killed more than 5,300 people, the vast majority of them in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the continent’s top health agency. In mid-May, the DRC declared its 17th Ebola outbreak, a deadly disease transmitted through contact with bodily fluids that causes haemorrhagic feve...
•Health workers in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Africa’s latest outbreak of Ebola has passed 10,000 confirmed cases, the vast majority of them in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Congolese health authorities said today. According to the DRC’s figures, 10,060 people have been infected and 4,887 have died since the virus was first de...
•Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Pate The Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Pate, has said there is no immediate need to cancel political campaigns, conferences or other large public gatherings following Nigeria’s confirmation of an imported Ebola virus disease case. Pate, however, warned that the gove...
•Keyamo and Muritala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos In a measure to contain the spread of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) following a confirmed case in the Federal Capital Territory, the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, said he has directed the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) to place 46 persons...
•Ugandan and Nigerian flags Uganda’s Ministry of Health has denied reports of an Ebola outbreak in the country following confirmation of a case in Nigeria. The federal government had yesterday confirmed a case of the Ebola virus in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Nigeria’s confirmed case comes amid an ongoing Ebola outbreak linked to the ...
•Ebola outbreak The worst Ebola outbreak to hit the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has killed more than 3,400 people, is still spreading in a key province despite an improvement in other regions, the World Health Organization said today. The huge African nation’s government indicated at the weekend that the outbreak may have peaked in [&h...
•Ebola outbreak More than 16,000 doses of the Ervebo vaccine arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) late yesterday, our correspondent saw, as the country faces the deadliest Ebola outbreak in its history. The DRC’s 17th Ebola outbreak, which has killed thousands of people, was declared on May 15 but is thought to have […]
•Ebola outbreak The Ebola outbreak raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo is growing “exponentially”, with more than 2,500 deaths now recorded, with half in the last 20 days, the United Nations’ senior Ebola coordinator said today. The Ebola outbreak is already the biggest in the country’s history and is spreading faster than any outbreak ...
•Ebola outbreak An Ebola outbreak has now killed 2,325 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, making it the country’s deadliest outbreak of the virus, according to government figures released today. The United Nations says that the Ebola outbreak “is the fastest-growing on record” and is killing a victim every 30 minutes in the DRC, [&hel...
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