Another American doctor who works as a Missionary in Liberia has tested positive for Ebola in Monrovia, Liberia. He is the third American health care worker to contract the virus. The first two...
A study published in the September edition of the Lancet Global Health Journal shows that the Africa Region, has the lowest tobacco use in pregnant women in the world.
Southeast Asia has the highest...
Efforts to control the cholera outbreak seem to proving futile as the disease keep spreading to other parts of the country.
There are increasing cases in the Brong Ahafo and Central regions.
Joy...
President John Mahama has directed operators of public toilets in accra to allow children use their facility free of charge.
He gave the directive on Saturday when he toured parts of the Greater...
Senegal's health minister has confirmed a first case of Ebola, making it the fifth West African country to be affected by the outbreak.
Awa Marie Coll Seck told reporters on Friday that a young man...
Greater Accra Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service has indicated that the fast killing cholera is far from over in the region and so the public should take extra precautions.
Linda Van-Otoo...
President John Dramani Mahama has lamented the ostracism and neglect countries affected by the deadly Ebola virus have been subjected to.
He said the increasing travel bans and border closures and...
A doctor in Port Harcourt who treated a primary contact of Nigeria's patient zero for the Ebola outbreak has died from the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).
The death of doctor has been confirmed by the...
Air France has canceled all flights to Sierra Leone.
The cancellation of the flight is a result of fears and numerous concerns raised over the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
This decision by...
The government has given the go ahead to public and private universities to re-open their institutions for the 2014/2015 academic year with effect from August 27, 2014.
A statement issued in Accra...
The American doctor, Dr Kent Brantly, who was receiving treatment at Emory's University Hospital after contracting Ebola is scheduled to be released today, August 21, 2014.
The doctor who contracted...
Riot police and soldiers acting on their president's orders used scrap wood and barbed wire to seal off 50,000 people inside their Liberian slum Wednesday, trying to contain the Ebola outbreak that...
Ashanti Region has recorded its first cholera death while 21 others are in critical conditions since renewed outbreak of the disease in parts of the country in recent months.
Three districts in the...
It has emerged that as the Ebola epidemic spreads quickly across the sub-region, only four of Ghana’s 42 legitimate entry points are equipped to handle the deadly disease.
Worst still, there are...
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday said between 12 and 13 August, a total of 152 new cases of Ebola Virus Disease (laboratory-confirmed, probable, and suspect cases) as well as 76 deaths...
Field Engineers of the Ghana Armed Forces have been deployed to speed up work on the three designated centers to be set up in the treatment of Ebola in the country in case of an outbreak.
The centers...
According to the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Kasoa, Adam Nuhu, tests conducted on blood samples of two persons suspected to have Ebola have proved negative.
There were reports that the Kasoa...
Doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers who form the first medical response team at the epicenters of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa are being infected and dieing from the disease.
The loss...
Shama, a fishing community in Ghana's Western Region with a population of close to 24,000 could possibly become one of the epicenters of an Ebola outbreak in Ghana.
The fishermen of Shama have made...
Nigeria's health officials have confirmed 10 cases of Ebola in Africa's most populous country.
Of the 10 confirmed cases, 2 of the infected patients have died from the disease. The two deceased...
