Internet giant, Google and Larry Page Foundation have launched a campaign to fight the Ebola disease. Google claims that for every dollar donated towards the cause, they will donate $2 till $7.5 million is reached. The donations will go to Network for Good, a donor advised fund, and will then be evenly distributed to four...
Some blackmailers, who are being referred to as terrorists, are threaten to unleash Ebola into Czech Republic unless the government pays them a ransom of €1m (£788,000, $1.26m) in bitcoins.
The blackmailers have also threatened to launch a viral smear campaign on social media, to reveal to the world “how...
There was fresh Ebola fears yesterday October 16th after an unidentified 63 year old man on board an Arik flight which left Lagos on Wednesday night heading to New York's JFK airport died before the plane reached its destination after vomiting profusely in his seat.
The plane crew immediately contacted the Centre for Disease...
A 56-year-old Sudanese UN medical worker who contracted Ebola in Liberia, has passed away in Germany.
According to AlJazeera, the man whose identity is unknown, died overnight at St Georg hospital in Leipzig.
He is said to have tested positive for the disease on October 6th, and arrived in Leipzig for treatment three days...
Lagos (NAN) President of the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA), Sepp Blatter, on Saturday said the organization would give full support to three West African countries heavily hit by the Ebola Virus Disease.
According to “Inside Games,” an online news provider, Blatter made the pledge at FIFA...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is donating $50 million (about N8 billion) to West Africa to assist in the fight against Ebola.
The foundation will be making the donation via the United Nations and other international organizations working to stop the outbreak, International Business Times reports. A part of the...
There appears to be a ray of hope in the fight against Ebola.
Dr. Mike Turner, a British scientist researching Ebola, told Punch that thanks to a partnership between the non-governmental organisation he works with, and Dangote Foundation, an Ebola vaccine could be available as early as December this year.
Turner is Head of...
A consultant at LUTH in Idi Araba, Prof Adebukola Ositelu has said Ewedu (known in English as a Long-Fruited vegetable), has the potency and capability of preventing and maybe curing the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) by boosting the immune system.
This disclosure was made known during the annual African Traditional Medicine Day...
Due to the current Ebola outbreak in the country, the Federal Government has ordered that all primary and secondary schools in the country should resume in October, instead of the usual September resumption.
The directive applies to both private and public institutions.
The schools’ resumption date was postponed to...
Today Monday 25th August 2014, The Guardian US published an article by a author and regular columnist Michele Hanson about the Ebola outbreak.
The headline reads – “If God saved an American doctor with Ebola, why did he let 1,200 Africans die?”
In the short piece which can be read on The Guardian...
Nancy Writebol is a woman with a heart of gold.
The 59-year-old who was released on Tuesday from the Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, after being airlifted to the U.S. from Liberia, has her mind on Africa.
She was the other American, apart from Dr. Kent Brantley, to contract the deadly disease.
In an interview...
The Chairman of Heirs Holdings and former MD of UBA bank, Mr Tony Elumelu has donated N50m to support the Federal Government's effort to contain the Ebola virus in Nigeria.Dan Nwomeh, the Special Assistant on Media to the Minister of Health Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu announced this today on social media.
The management of Shell...
Dr. Kent Brantly, the American doctor who contracted Ebola in Liberia, will be released today from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, ABC News reports.
The 33-year-old contracted the deadly virus while working in a Liberian Ebola ward with the aid agency Samaritan’s Purse. He was later taken to the U.S. earlier in...
On Tuesday, a Nigerian woman was rushed to a hospital, after showing signs ofEbola virus at Job Center, Berlin, Germany.
As many as 600 visitors and staff at the office were all stopped from leaving for several hours as emergency services sealed off part of the street.
Daily Mail UK reports that woman who fainted hails...
Some members have been staying away from church in the last two weeks because of 'Ebola', hence worried pastors are now organising Crusades against Ebola. But will crusade not complicate the issue?
lets hope there will be enough miracles to defeat Ebola....;-)
OMG! WOW! Meet 9-year-old CEO, Cory, who lives the life...
For many in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, the fear of Ebola has become the beginning of wisdom. Even when it involves matters related to séx and intimacy.
On a dark Wednesday night, the busy Allen Avenue, in the heart of Ikeja, the state capital, provided a glimpse of how much the fear of Ebola Virus has impacted on...
By Femi Fani-Kayode
I disagree with those who have described Patrick Sawyer as a madman. He was not mad at all, but just evil. He was a man that was on a mission. That mission was to SPREAD the ebola virus to Nigeria and to infect and kill as many people as possible with it.
He was an evil man with an evil intention and...Foreign
By Theophilus Ilevbare
These days, nothing strikes a bout of panic and paranoia than the thought of Ebola Virus Disease. It’s been decades since a disease or calamity of such proportions threatened our relationships, businesses, sports and our very existence.
In the midst of all the trepidation came a ray of hope – an...
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has claimed the lives of more than a 1,000 people. Every day, at least one person dies.
In Monvoria, Liberia, where the outbreak is extremely severe, a photographerJohn Moore risked getting the virus by heading down there to take images of the sad state of the nation.
The United...
Abuja (NAN) – Nigeria has received an experimental drug froman unnamed Nigerian scientist to treat Ebola virus, the Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, said in Abuja on Thursday.
Chukwu, who gave the cheering news at a news conference, gave the name of the drug as “Nanosilver.”
“The only experimental drug we have now...
The National Council on Health has banned the transport of corpses and critically ill persons on both local and international routes with immediate effect.
It said only dead bodies with waivers granted by the Federal Ministry of Health would be transported within and into Nigeria . Such corpses must be conveyed ...
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, Monday said all the patients who had tested positive to the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) and currently undergoing treatment at the Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba, were in “stable condition”.
The governor also explained that while the health status of the victims of the...
Miguel Pajares, the Spanish missionary priest who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia, has passed away.
He died at a hospital in Madrid, CNN reports.
Over the past few days, the 75-year-old priest was being treated with Zmapp, the untested, experimental drug for Ebola.
R.I.P.
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The 75 year old Spanish priest who was infected with the Ebola virus in Liberia is being treated with the new experimental drug, Zmapp, which was used to treat two US missionary doctors infected with the virus.
The Spanish government claimed yesterday that the drug was imported from Geneva and doctors have begun to administer it...
Abuja (NAN) ― President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday in Abuja declared a national emergency on the outbreak of Ebola virus in the country.
Consequently, the President approved the immediate release of N1.9 billion for the control and containment of the disease.
In a statement, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and...
With the devastating spread of the Ebola Virus in West Africa, many are scared and in the case of those who have lost loved ones to the virus, devastated.
Dr. Kent Brantly, an American Doctor who was working for as a medical missionary in Liberia is one of the most high profile victims of the virus. He was airlifted to Atlanta...
Salt is not the solution for the Ebola virus.
This Day Newspaper reports that at least two people are feared dead, while 20 others are hospitalised in various hospitals in Plateau State after consuming excessive quantity of salt and bitter kola to prevent Ebola Virus Disease .
According to the publication, the two who were...
Washington DC (Reuters/NAN) – Liberia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan, said on Friday in Washington that health care system in Liberia has collapsed over the Ebola epidemic.
Ngafuan said hospitals were closing down and medical workers fleeing from the Ebola epidemic, which is poised to...
The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola Epidemic an International Health Emergency, stating that "a coordinated international response is deemed essential to stop and reverse the international spread of Ebola" which has killed almost a 1000 people in four west African countries.
At an emergency meeting today...Foreign
Amidst a frightening case of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease spread in Nigeria, the Presidency has reached out to the United State government to give it some Zmapp, the experimental drug for Ebola. It is shame that we can't seem to do anything in Nigeria without foreign help, in spite of the Billions we make daily.
Rather than...