Senegal confirmed its first case of Ebola on Friday, as the country’s health minister announced that a young Guinean had tested positive for the deadly virus.

Scientists tracking the spread of Ebola across West Africa on Thursday released 99 sequenced genomes of the hemorrhagic virus, in hopes of accelerating diagnosis and treatment.

Efforts by the Nigerian Government to contain the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, imported into the country by American – Liberian, late Patrick Sawyer Thursday took a dramatic twist as the virus claimed another life of a medical doctor in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital

RIVERS State Commissioner of Health, Dr Sampson Parker has dismissed as untrue, allegation that the state had recorded its first case of Ebola victim.

The three nations at the centre of the west African Ebola outbreak were left increasingly isolated on Wednesday as more airlines suspended flights to the crisis zone.

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Wednesday in Abuja condemned the stigmatization of Nigerians by some countries over recent cases of the Ebola Virus Disease in the country.

French flag carrier Air France said it was suspending its flights to Sierra Leone from Thursday, amid an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa.

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LAGOS State Signage and Advertisement Agency, LASAA, in partnership with Outdoor Advertising Association of Nigeria, OAAN, has concluded plans to commence free public awareness campaign on electronic billboards as part of efforts towards curtailing the spread of Ebola Virus Disease.

A British nurse infected with Ebola while working in Sierra Leone is being given the same experimental drug used on two US missionaries who have recovered for the disease, doctors in London said Tuesday.

The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced the containment of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). The Honourable Minister for Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu made the statement during a media briefing on Tuesday.

A civil society organization, Civil Society Awareness Response on Epidemic Diseases CARED has called for the fumigation of all public places in the country to prevent the spread of Ebola virus to parts of Nigeria.

Hundreds of youths in Emohua local government yesterday protested the location of Ebola quarantine centre in the community.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, Monrday, held a sensitisation meeting with market women in the state on precautionary measures to take to stop the spread of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease in the state.

The Muritala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, weekend got additional Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) screen equipment from the United States Government to boost screening capacity at the airport. The equipment is worth 5,000 US Dollars.