•Ebola outbreak India and the African Union (AU), yesterday, postponed the India-Africa Forum Summit scheduled for next week in New Delhi, due to the “emerging public health situation” in Africa, India’s foreign ministry said, in an apparent reference to the Ebola outbreak. A first Ebola case was confirmed in the DR Congo’s rebel-held South ...
•Ebola outbreak The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has placed airlines and airport authorities on high alert following the fresh outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in parts of East and Central Africa. The aviation regulatory agency has therefore directed operators – aviation agencies and airlines to immediately strengthen health surveill...
The Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has declared the ongoing Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security (PHECS), following rising infections, deaths and fears of wider regional transmission. According to the agency, about 395 susp...
•Health workers carry body of Ebola victim Uganda’s health ministry said it had confirmed an outbreak of the highly infectious Ebola virus, and that a man had died from the disease after travelling from the Democratic Republic of Congo. A major outbreak of the virus was declared in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that […]
An Ebola outbreak declared in the DR Congo in early September has caused 42 deaths out of 64 confirmed cases. The risk of it spreading in the region is moderate, the WHO said today. Health authorities in DR Congo began rolling out a vaccine programme against the often fatal virus two weeks ago. The highly […]
The federal government said it had intensified monitoring and screening procedures at all points of entry in response to the ongoing outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Director of Port Health Services at the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Dr Akpan Nse, disclosed this in an […]
•A team from Doctors Without Borders dons protective clothing and equipment as they prepare to treat Ebola patients in an isolation ward of Mbandaka Hospital in Congo Nigerians have been advised to avoid all but essential trips to Uganda and other countries with confirmed Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) cases. The advisory followed the January 30 [&...
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