Busting the myths about Ebola is crucial to stop the transmission of the disease.
Will eating raw onions and garlic or ginger once a day for three days protect you from Ebola? Is it okay to eat bitter kola? Or will bathing with salty water prevent infection with Ebola?

You do not go to a gun duel armed with a knife, neither do you wear boxing gloves to a wrestling match. Common sense dictates that one goes to battle with the right equipment

In this interview, Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, bares his mind on the deadly ebola virus. He also speaks on the strike by doctors, passionately appealed to them to call it off.

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, and death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die”. A window sticker bearing these last two verses of John Donne’s holy sonnet, “Death be not proud”, caught this reporter’s attention

For Ebola, an illness of exceptional contagion which first outbreak of the virus was in 1976, its origin traced to Congo and Sudan, cure for the dreaded disease seems to have been found in the United States (US)

Zambia has banned the entry of citizens from countries hit by the deadly Ebola virus, which is ravaging nations to the north of the continent, the health ministry said Saturday.

Clinical trials of a preventative vaccine for the Ebola virus made by British pharma company GlaxoSmithKline may begin next month and made available by 2015, the World Health Organization said on Saturday.

Guinea on Saturday said it was closing its land borders with Liberia and Sierra Leone in a bid to halt the spread of the deadly Ebola virus which has claimed hundreds of lives in the three west African countries.

More than 1,500 police and soldiers have been mobilised in Sierra Leone to enforce quarantine measures in areas affected by the deadly Ebola virus, the government said on Saturday.

A Congolese nun who worked with Spanish Catholic missionaries in Liberia has died of Ebola, the charity she worked for said Saturday in Madrid.

Authorities in Lagos appealed Saturday for volunteers to help fight an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Nigerian’s megacity of over 20 million people after admitting they lacked medical personnel.

The Commissioner for Health in Abia, Dr Okechukwu Ogah, has said that there is no outbreak of Ebola disease in the state.

US health authorities said Friday they are sending extra personnel and resources to Nigeria, which has declared a national emergency as it battles a deadly outbreak of Ebola for the first time.

LIKE wild Harmattan fire, the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) continued to spread yesterday across the globe with Nigeria recording two more cases and the World Health Organisation (WHO) declaring a global health emergency.

Two people died Friday in Jos, the Plateau State capital after allegedly taking salt in warm water and bathing with same to prevent the dreaded Ebola virus disease.