Holiday lessons used to be an excuse for parents to get their children out of the house, while gearing them up for the next academic session.
For children, it was not just an opportunity to get ahead academically, but to spend time with their friends in a more relaxed environment.

An experimental drug treatment can help monkeys survive an otherwise deadly infection with a tropical virus called Marburg, which is similar to Ebola, researchers said Wednesday.

IT came like a thief in the night, unannounced but deadly. And since its stealthy arrival, death has been stalking the land, leaving tears, sorrow and fear in its wake.
At the last check, the death toll has hit the 1,145 mark, according to the World Health Organisation, WHO. Indeed the world has known no peace but fear since an outbreak of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, went out of control, ravaging West African countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

In an effort to help build a more robust tech response to the Ebola crisis spreading like wild fire globally, concerned African ICT professionals and stakeholders have called for the establishment of a national electronic response centre (NERS) in all African countries on Ebola.

Liberia’s armed forces have reportedly been given orders to shoot people trying to illegally cross the border from neighbouring Sierra Leone, which was closed to stem the spread of ebola. Soldiers stationed in Bomi and Grand Cape Mount counties, which border Sierra Leone, were to “shoot on sight” any person trying to cross the border, said deputy chief of staff, Colonel Eric Dennis.

Some of the people who fled an ebola quarantine centre in a Liberian slum when it was looted, weekend, are again under observation at a hospital Monday, a health official said.

THE world’s worst-ever outbreak of ebola will inflict economic damage on the West African countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone as companies from Sime Darby Bhd to ArcelorMittal scale back operations. Commercial and transport disruptions that will probably last for at least the next month, along with increased health expenditure, may put pressure on budgets, jeopardising the nations’ economic growth, Matt Robinson, a senior credit officer at Moody’s Investors Service, said in a report.

THE World Health Organization, WHO, yesterday, rejected ebola-related travel and trade bans, as the virus that has killed more than 1,100 people continued to spread across West Africa. It said in a statement thaxt the risk of getting infected with ebola during travel was “low.”

The World Health Organisation (WHO), has advised authorities in countries affected by Ebola to check people departing at international airports, seaports and major border crossings.

The World Health Organization said Monday that it had set up a task force with the global airline and tourism industry in an effort to contain the spread of Ebola.