Volunteers are being paid 1,073 Naira per day to sterilize and bury the bodies of those who have died after contracting the deadly Ebola virus. As the crisis continues to spread across West African countries, workers in Kenema, Sierra Leone, have been pictured donning special protective gear and face masks to carry out the harrowing
The United States has commended Nigeria’s efforts to curb the spread of the Ebola virus. The US Ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwistle, gave the commendation in Abuja while on a visit to the Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu. The envoy said the aim of the visit was to discuss further on the anti-Ebola cooperation
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The umbrella body that represents vice-chancellors in the UK, Universities UK has put universities on alert to be ready for a potential Ebola outbreak, as West African students arrive for the new semester, which commences in September. The Independent UK reports the body has written to every university giving detailed guidance on how to deal with an outbreak. The decision was made to
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Eight out of the Nigerians infected with the deadly Ebola disease will benefit from an experimental treatment in Lagos, Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu has announced. Chukwu, who made the announcement, today at a world press conference in Abuja, said a Nigerian scientist has offered Nigeria the drug, ‘NanoSilver’, for testing on those infected
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To prevent an outbreak of the Ebola Viral Disease (EVD), the Federal Government has reportedly approved the extension of the current holiday of primary and secondary schools across the country until further notice. NewTelegraph reports that the development, government stated, is part of measures to curb the spread of Ebola. Senior Special Assistant to the
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The first lady, Dame Patience Jonathan was photographed on her arrival at Sopoto, Northern Poland to commission a training ship built for the Nigerian Oceanographic Institute for Marine and Research purposes, greeting officials and aides in the new vogue of Ebola greeting. She greeted them at respectable distance with ”palm-rubbing acknowledgement. Other Ebola Greeting Style
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The World Health Organisation authorised the use of experimental drugs to fight Ebola as the death toll topped 1 000 and a Spanish priest became the first European to succumb to the outbreak. The declaration by the UN’s health agency came on Tuesday after a US company that makes an experimental serum called ZMapp said
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A US company that makes an experimental drug for treating the often deadly Ebola virus said Monday it has sent all its available supplies to West Africa. Some 961 people have died from the hemorrhagic fever in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Nigeria since March during the largest Ebola outbreak in history. “In responding to
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This is the largest outbreak of Ebola in history, but it isn’t the first. The Ebola virus was first diagnosed in humans in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, when it infected 318 people. And most recently, 57 people in 2012, according to WHO. A team of Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) have been accused
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