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...
The second American missionary doctor, Nancy Writebol, who was medically evacuated from Liberia on August 4th to Emory University’s Hospital in Atlanta, is making great strides on a strong road to...
Ghana could be forced to ban flights from Ebola affected countries once the spillover rate becomes threatening in West Africa.
Kenya has already banned flights from Sierra Leone and Liberia as a...
Resident doctors at the Medicine Department of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital are calling on authorities to expedite action on the construction of the isolation area to enable them handle suspected...
A Virologist at the Ghana Veterinary Service, Dr. Joseph Adongo-Awuni has cautioned the public to place equal emphasis on the animal to human mode of transmitting the Ebola virus.
“We are still at...
Health Minister Kweku Agyemang-Mensah says government has had to squeeze money from the Ebola fund to fight the cholera endemic.
President John Mahama only last week ordered the release of six...
Fear and ignorance have become obtrusive elements stymieing governmental and international efforts in the fight against the current pervasive West African Ebola Epidemic.
In Ghana, there have been...
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 National Information Technology Agency (NITA) is set to begin investigations into a tape making rounds on social media alleging the conspiracy by political leaders to cover up the outbreak of the...
There are conflicting reports over the fate of 17 Ebola patients who vanished after a quarantine centre in the Liberian capital Monrovia was looted.
An angry mob attacked the centre in the city's...
The first Nigerian Ebola patient has been discharged from the quarantine unit of the Emergency Operation Centre, EOC, at the Mainland Hospital, Yaba, Lagos.
News of the discharge of the unnamed...
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...
In an interview with Sahara TV, Professor Sunday Aremu Omilabu – the Consultant Virologist College of Medicine, University of Lagos, speaks on theEbola outbreak in Nigeria.
And although the...
The government of Ghana has refused a request by Sierra Leone’s national team to play its 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against DR Congo in Accra next month.
CAF instructed countries being...
Health workers at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital are praying and hoping that a suspected Ebola patient who they attended to and who died in their arms may well prove negative for the virus.
If he...
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...
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), some foreign nationals who have sojourned in Ghana have disclosed some of the procedural lapses by Ghana's Immigration Service (GIS) while securing...
Despite the continuous public health education about how to recognize the symptoms of the Ebola Virus Disease, the debilitating effects of virus, mode of transmission, its prevalence, and how to...
