Ebola

Director-General, National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC), Chief Olusegun Runsewe has said Bobrisky’s impact on society is actually worse than Ebola. According to him, the youths must desist from imitating the cross dresser. Chief Olusegun added that the youths should keep seeing themselves as responsible and good ambassadors of ...

Last week, foremost blogger Linda Ikeji bought that Lanre Da Silva dress above for N1million naira at the Future awards Lagos. She wore the dress to an event yesterday She shared the photo on IG with a caption “#Today’s look! Rocking my Lanre Dasilva dress. Bought it at auction for ...

The United Nations revealed that, the infected UN peacekeeper was tested positive to the disease on Wednesday, December 3, 2014 and the diagnosis was announced by the organization the next day. UN said the infected soldier will be flown to Netherlands for treatment. Inge Freriksen, a spokesperson for the Dutch ...

The Chief Medical Director of the First Consultant Hospital where the first case of Ebola was diagnosed in Nigeria, says as an organization, they are struggling to float after reopening for business last month. In an interview with Tribune yesterday, Dr Benjamin Ohiaeri said himself, his staff and their families ...

The prompt intervention of Chisco transport officials has saved a pregnant wom�an, who after alighting from one of the company’s buses at its terminal, Jibowu, Lagos, started vomiting blood through her mouth and nose. According to DailySun, the bus, with registration number KJA 950 XR, was said to have arrived ...

A 2-year-old girl in Mali, who was confirmed as the first person to have Ebola in the country, is dead. The toddler, who returned from Guinea after being infected, is also the first person to die of the disease in the West African country. Mali’s government confirmed the death in ...

US doctor based in New York who recently returned from treating Ebola patients in Guinea has become the first person in the city to test positive for Ebola. 33 year old Dr. Craig Allen Spencer (pictured above) had been working with Doctors Without Borders in Guinea, and returned to NYC ...

A United Nation Aids worker who was being treated for Ebola at the St George clinic in Leipzig, Germany has died. The unidentified UN worker who was flown back to Germany from Liberia last week after contracting the deadly virus, died in the early hours of today, October 14th. A ...

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Flavour has been hit with a temporary ban from the Dominican Republic. He was set to perform at the 18th edition of the World Creole Music Festival. His name and info which was officially on the list has been taken down. According to Dominica News Online. The prime minister, Roosevelt ...

Texas Health Resources spokesman Wendell Watson said in a statement. “It is with profound sadness and heartfelt disappointment that we must inform you of the death of Thomas Eric Duncan this morning at 7:51 am,” “We have offered the family our support and condolences at this difficult time.” �Duncan, 42, ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is hoping to announce later on this week that Nigeria and Senegal are free of Ebola after 42 days with no infections. The 42 days is the standard period for declaring an outbreak over, twice the maximum 21-day incubation period of the virus. � According ...

The US has recorded it’s first case of Ebola.The patient was admitted at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed that ,an unidentified patient who recently returned from the West Africa area is currently being treated for the deadly virus at a Dallas, Texas ...

A doctor in rural Liberia inundated with Ebola patients says he’s had good results with a treatment he tried out of sheer desperation: an HIV drug. Ebola & HIV CNN reports that Dr. Gobee Logan had given the drug, lamivudine, to 15 Ebola patients, and all but two survived. That’s ...

Panic amongst villagers in Africa is running high today after two Ebola victims were reported to have risen from the dead. According to The Mirror, a local African newspaper is recording that the incident happened not once, but twice, to two separate people in two separate villages � one aged ...

This is good news!! WHO already declared Nigeria an Ebola free country and now the health minister says all suspected cases of the disease that were under surveillance in Port Harcourt have been discharged after completing the minimum 21 days of observation.

11 year old Mamadee is inspiration that no matter what you’re going through, a positive attitude can change your outlook and the outcome of your situation. Liberian Mamadee was a confirmed Ebola patient who used to dance in the camp (Iyanya’s Kukere music), making everyone happy. A few weeks after ...

Dr Ameyo Adadevoh has been credited with going out of her way to stop Patrick Sawyer from leaving First Consultants Hospital,even before he tested Ebola Positive.That single act has saved more lives than imagined .After losing her life to the virus, Nigerians called on the government to honour her for ...

Last night,Governor Fashola hosted five survivors of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) at the State House, Alausa.They recounted their ordeals and how God saved them. Of the visiting survivors, three of them � Dr. Morris Ibeawuchi, Dr. Adaora Igonoh and Dr. Akinniyi Fadipe � are medical practitioners with the First ...

NAFDAC (National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control) isn’t happy about the way Nigerians are coming up with bogus claims about different things being able to cure the dreaded Ebola Virus. The agency has also apprehended a businessman who was said to have imported fake sanitisers and Ebola ...