At least 5 dead in Guinea Ebola flare-up: health officials
Ebola has likely killed five people in Guinea after re-emerging in the country's south, health authorities said Tuesday, as Liberia announced it was closing their shared border to guard against the spread of the virus.
Another Sierra Leonean doctor dies
A SECOND Sierra Leonean doctor has died after contracting the deadly Ebola virus, health officials have noted. Dr Modupeh John Eric Cole, a senior physician at the Connaught Hospital in Freetown, was diagnosed with Ebola last Friday and taken to the specialist Kailahun Treatment Centre the following day.
Stringent regulatory requirements prolong development of Ebola cure — Pharmacist
A pharmacist, Prof. Martins Emeje, said on Wednesday that stringent global regulatory requirements were one set of factors prolonging the development of the vaccine against the Ebola virus.
Ebola: Governors avoid handshakes, adopt knuckles greeting
President Goodluck Jonathan, Wednesday, summoned the thirty six state governors with their commissioners for Health for an emergency meeting to discuss possible ways to curtail the spread of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). The governors opted to great one another with knuckles.
Ebola kills 56 in two days, says WHO
The Ebola virus killed 56 people in just two days, bringing the global death toll to 1,069, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
Ebola: Lagos doctors seek adequate panic, facilities in all hospitals
Members of the Medical Guild, an umbrella body of medical doctors under the employment of Lagos State Government yesterday urged the state government to immediately provide all facilities needed in the containment of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in all the health facilities across the state.
