The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank has approved a $430,000 grant to Guinea to fight the spread…
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FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE— Thirty veterans from the public health response to the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak and over eighty other…
Just three months after the first case was reported in North Kivu, the 12th Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic…
African countries are certainly doing more than preventive medicine to ward off the predicted numbers of death from the devastating…
“It is very tiresome on the body, as well as scary on the mind.” A few years ago during the…
The Verdict By Olusegun Adeniyi, Email: olusegun.adeniyi@thisdaylive.com “From 1 January through 9 February 2020, 472 laboratory-confirmed cases including 70 deaths…
Moralising the way diseases and viruses are transferred is a very human, and particularly nasty trait. “We don’t need this…
The first case of Coronavirus in Nigeria was brought in by an Italian citizen. The test was confirmed by Lagos…
The World Health Organization has extended its designation of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a…
African sojourns to western countries are being curtailed for fear of overwhelming their hosts with the “disease” of the explosive…
The death toll from a measles epidemic in Congo has surpassed 6,000, the World Health Organization said Tuesday as it…
Over 3,000 cases of Ebola virus have been recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo so far. The haemorrhagic fever…
Twenty cases of Ebola have been recorded in three days in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where deadly violence…
Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi has said the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo should be eradicated by the…
(Reuters) – Merck & Co’s vaccine for the Ebola virus received recommendation of approval from a panel of the European…
Arlette Kavugho was discharged from an Ebola ward in eastern Congo in March, but her troubles did not end there.…
Health authorities in Malawi have dismissed as false reports that first Ebola case has been recorded in the country’s border…
The Federal Government has advised travellers and tourists to be careful wherever they notice the presence of Idris Okuneye, popularly…
The United States on Friday warned its citizens to take extra care when visiting Tanzania amid concerns over Ebola, adding…
Tanzania on Tuesday summoned the World Health Organization’s local representative, who over the weekend asserted that the government refused to…
The World Health Organization has accused Tanzania of failing to provide information on suspected cases of Ebola in this East…
Tanzania has refuted allegations of harbouring an Ebola case in the country, formally telling the World Health Organisation (WHO), it…
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on donor nations to give the money they’ve pledged to fight Ebola on Monday…
The death toll from Democratic Republic of Congo’s year-long Ebola outbreak has climbed above 2,000, government data showed on Friday,…
Burundi authorities have stepped up health controls along the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo increasing surveillance and safety…
Today we remember Dr Stella Ameyo Adadevoh (Lagos, 1956), the physician who discovered that Ebola had arrived in the most…
The first confirmed cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s South Kivu province was announced on Friday (August…
Two Ebola patients who were treated with new drugs in the city of Goma in eastern Congo have been declared…
The World Health Organisation has vaccinated over 1,300 people who potentially came into contact with the Ebola virus in the…
Rwandans are being stopped from crossing over into the DR Congo city of Goma due to Ebola concerns, the BBC Great Lakes…