Ebola Virus Disease

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President Mahama urges Ghanaian soldiers to join in efforts to fight Ebola

President John Mahama has urged Ghanaian soldiers to complement efforts of their counterparts in the West African...

World News

UK Starts Screening For Ebola At Airports for People Traveling From Ebola Hit Countries.

People arriving in the UK from areas hit by Ebola face "enhanced screening" for the virus at Heathrow, Gatwick and...

World News

More Ebola Outbreaks outside Africa – Nurse Infected in Spain

Spanish Health Minister Ana Mato has confirmed that a nurse who treated two victims of Ebola in Madrid has tested...

Africa & World

The World Bank Increases Ebola Crisis Management Fund to $400 million

The World Bank has agreed a dramatic increase in financing to address the Ebola crisis upping the initial $230 million...

Africa & World

President John Mahama Visits West Africa Hardest Hit Ebola Countries – Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea

Mr. Mahama, Chairman of ECOWAS, left Accra on Monday for Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, to discuss with the...

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President Mahama Attends Memorial Service of Ebola Victim Dr Ameyo Stella Adadevoh

A requiem mass was held at the Christ the King Church on Friday, September 12, 2014 for Dr Ameyo Stella Adadevoh, the...

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Doctors Abandon Achimota Hospital over suspected Ebola Patient

Health workers at the Achimota Hospital in Accra have reportedly abandoned the facility over a suspected Ebola case...

Health

Gates Foundation Pledges $50m to fight Ebola

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $50m on Wednesday to support emergency efforts to contain West Africa's...

Health

Here’s How The Number of People Who Have Been Killed By The Ebola Virus – 2000

More than 2,000 people have died in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the World Health Organization said on Friday,...

Africa & World

Sierra Leone Fights Ebola With Nationwide Lockdown, Experts Warn It Won’t Work

Sierra Leone's proposed countrywide "lockdown" will not help control an Ebola outbreak and could lead to the disease...

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Kofi Annan on Ebola – Travel Ban on Ebola Countries May Hinder Eradication

The Chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, Busumuru Kofi Annan has warned that if measures are not put in place now to...

Feature

The Politics and Economics of the Ebola Outbreak

Foreign policy strategies in many western nations is built on mutual benefit. “You scratch my back, I scratch your...

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Third American Doctor Tests Positive For Ebola In Liberia

Another American doctor who works as a Missionary in Liberia has tested positive for Ebola in Monrovia, Liberia. He is...

Feature

#NoChobo, The Give Free Hand Sanitizing Initiative Against Cholera and Ebola In Ghana.

There are those who talk and those who act. Some have decided to be action figures to fight against the current cholera...

Africa & World

Sudan Just Banned Reporting on Ebola

The Sudanese authorities have prohibited local media from covering any news related to the Ebola virus. Press sources...

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US Universities Screening African Students for Ebola

College students from West Africa may be subject to extra health checks when they arrive to study in the United States...

Sports

Ivory Coast Risk Disqualification for 2015 Nations Cup over Ebola Fears

Ivory Coast will be disqualified from the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations if they forfeit their qualifier against Sierra...

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First Case Of Ebola Confirmed In Senegal

Senegal's health minister has confirmed a first case of Ebola, making it the fifth West African country to be affected...

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Ghana’s to Open It’s doors for the dispatch of supplies and personnel to the Ebola-Hit Nations – President Mahama

President John Dramani Mahama has lamented the ostracism and neglect countries affected by the deadly Ebola virus have...