The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar lll, yesterday, warned Muslims against the consumption of monkeys and bush meat to avoid contracting the dreaded Ebola virus.

The National Health Research Ethics Committee, Nigeria, has approved the use of an experimental Ebola drug, Zmapp, for treatment of patients infected with the virus.

AVAILABLE documents indicate that Mr. Sawyer’s employers, ArcelorMittal, an iron mining company, suspended him from work and isolated him after it became aware that he had contact with his sister who died of the virus on July 8. The company also issued an internal memo to staff of the company informing them that Mr. Sawyer had been referred to the Liberian Health ministry for testing and close observation

The Wellbeing Foundation Africa, WBFA, has noted that the current Ebola outbreak in the intersection of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, does not come at much surprise, when one considers that Liberia and Sierra Leone have the worst doctor-patient ratios in West Africa.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has called for greater strategic collaboration among West African countries to control and contain the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in order to check its spread and further threat to human lives, even as the Federal government, yesterday, directed all laboratory centres and hospitals nationwide to set up Infection Control Facilities with immediate effect.

AN experimental Ebola treatment is being sent to Liberia for two ill doctors who will become the first Africans to receive the untested ZMapp drug

LAGOS lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, SAN, has faulted the declaration of emergency on Ebola Virus by the Federal Government saying there was no provision under the constitution to justify such declaration.

THE World Health Organisation has issued ethical considerations for use of unregistered interventions for EVD. In a statement issued after a 12-man consultation panel discussion, yesterday, the organisation noted that although research efforts for drugs and vaccines for Ebola virus disease have shown promising results in the laboratory, they have not yet been evaluated for safety and efficacy in human beings.

COTE d’Ivoire the economic powerhouse of French-speaking West Africa, on Monday banned air travellers from the three countries worst-hit by the Ebola outbreak and ordered its flagship carrier Air Cote d’Ivoire to cease flights to and from them.

A SPANISH missionary who caught Ebola in Liberia has died of the disease. Miguel Pajares, 75, died on Tuesday at the Carlos III hospital in Madrid, where he was being treated in isolation.