•Ebola outbreak The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has placed Lagos, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Kano, Rivers and six additional states on high Ebola preparedness alert, after a new risk assessment classified Nigeria’s likelihood of importing the Bundibugyo Ebola Virus Disease as “high.” In a national public ...
•Ebola outbreak Squeezed onto the back of a motorcycle, clearly exhausted and symptomatic, a young woman arrived at Rwampara hospital, where overwhelmed health workers have found themselves on the front line of a deadly Ebola outbreak. The town in the violence-hit east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the centres of a […]
•Ebola outbreak The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has warned that Nigeria faces a high risk of importing the Ebola virus disease (EVD) due to ongoing outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda. Despite the absence of any confirmed case in the country, the agency said heightened regional transmissi...
•Ebola outbreak The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has warned that 10 African countries are at risk of being affected by the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Central and East Africa. The head of the agency, Jean Kaseya, disclosed this today while addressing concerns over the spread of the virus beyond the Democratic Republic [&hell...
•Ebola outbreak Uganda said today it had confirmed three new cases of Ebola, bringing to five the total since the virus outbreak was discovered in the East African country on May 15. “Three new cases of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) have been confirmed in the country,” the health ministry said, naming the patients as […]
Stakeholders in the air transport sector have urged airline operators to avoid transporting individuals suspected of showing symptoms associated with Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in order to minimise the risk of cross-border transmission. The call followed a disclosure by Port Health Services, PHS, that advanced screening and monitoring measures ...
•Pedestrians cover their mouth and nose as they walk past a convoy ready to escort the body of a patient deceased at the hospital in Rwampara towards the cemetery, yesterday Rioters have burnt down hospital tents in a hotspot of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola epidemic, as many Congolese wrestle with fear, anger and […]
The World Health Organisation today said the risk of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s deadly Ebola outbreak was currently high at the national and regional levels but low worldwide. WHO experts said that while investigations into its origins were ongoing, given the scale of the situation in the eastern DRC, the outbreak probably began a [&he...
•An American Airlines Boeing 737-823 passenger aircraft The United States said yesterday it is bolstering precautions to prevent the spread of Ebola, including screening air travelers from outbreak-hit areas and temporarily suspending visa services. The measures shared by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) come as the Wor...
•Health workers carrying body of victim The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has said that although currently Nigeria has no confirmed case of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), it is, nevertheless, actively strengthening surveillance, following the death of 88 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and a reported imported c...
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