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Nigeria Postpones Start of School Year Over Ebola Outbreak
Authorities in Nigeria reported that classes in all public and private schools will be delayed by a month to put in...
First Cases of Ebola In Congo, Two Deaths Confirmed
Congo’s health minister Felix Kabange Numbi said today that two deaths have been confirmed to be caused by Ebola, the...
Sierra Leone Passes New Ebola Law Making It Illegal To Hide An Ebola Patient
Sierra Leone voted to pass a new amendment to its health act, imposing possible jail time for anyone caught hiding an...
Liberia Riot Police and Soldiers Use Scrap Wood and Barbed Wire to Seal off 50,000 People To Contain Ebola
Riot police and soldiers acting on their president's orders used scrap wood and barbed wire to seal off 50,000 people...
This Might Have Just Completely Worsened The Ebola Epidemic In Liberia, 50,000 People May Be In Danger Now
There are conflicting reports over the fate of 17 Ebola patients who vanished after a quarantine centre in the Liberian...
152 New Cases of Ebola Recorded in Two Days – World Health Organization (WHO)
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday said between 12 and 13 August, a total of 152 new cases of Ebola Virus...
Ebola Virus Particles Can Be Transmitted By Air – Consultant Virologist College of Medicine, University of Lagos
In an interview with Sahara TV, Professor Sunday Aremu Omilabu – the Consultant Virologist College of Medicine,...
Ghana Refuses Sierra Leone’s Request to Play 2015 Africa Cup of Nations Qualifier in Accra
The government of Ghana has refused a request by Sierra Leone’s national team to play its 2015 Africa Cup of Nations...
Ebola Vaccine To Be Available in 2015 – World Health Organization (WHO)
Clinical trials of vaccines for the deadly Ebola virus should soon get underway and will likely be ready for widespread...
Hand Sanitizer Business Booming In Ghana
One of the WHO protocols against the spread and transmission of pathogens includes frequent washing of hands. With...
Ghana’s Inter Ministerial Committee on Ebola Meet Today To Review Strategies on Preventing The Entry of the Deadly Virus
The inter-ministerial Committee on Ebola is expected to meet today to review strategies on preventing the entry of the...
Guinea Closes Borders to Halt the Spread of Ebola
Guinea has announced the closure of its borders with Sierra Leone and Liberia in a bid to halt the spread of Ebola, the...
Ghana May Now Have Recorded Her First Case of Ebola
A man from neighboring Burkina Faso, who shows symptoms of fever and bled from his nose and ears “was brought in...
Canadian Drugmaker Gets $140 million From U.S. Government To Develop Ebola Drug, ZMapp
U.S. health authorities have eased safety restrictions on an experimental drug to treat Ebola, a move that could clear...
President Obama: Too early to send Ebola drug to West Africa
US President Barack Obama said it is "premature" to send an experimental medicine for the treatment of Ebola to West...
Ebola in Saudi Arabia. One Death Recorded
A Saudi man suspected of being infected with the Ebola virus after recently returning from Sierra Leone passed away at...
Ebola Crisis Update: World Health Organization To Announce $100m Emergency Response
The head of the World Health Organization and leaders of West African nations affected by the Ebola outbreak are to...
Chika Amalaha Provisionally Suspended
Nigeria's weightlifting gold medal hero 17 years old Chika Amalaha has been provisionally suspended from the 2014...
Sierra Leone Is Looking for an Ebola-positive Patient on the Run
Officials in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, are appealing for help to help find a woman who left a hospital with the...