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It is not always bad news. I thought I should share this so we know there is chances of survival and there are people who survived the virus. 22 months old Isata from Sierra Leone is the youngest patient to recover from Ebola virus – this implies that there are ...

Liberia’s deputy finance minister, Sebastian Muah Omar, has been criticised for approving Patrick Sawyer’s trip to Nigeria,despite health officials placing him on Ebola danger list . In a heated conversation on Facebook as tracked by ‘concerned Liberians.org’ ,Omar defended his action harshly . This happened when the news just came ...

25year old Justina Obi Ejelonu, who attended to late Liberian Patrick Sawyer while he was ill at the First Consultant hospital in Lagos, has died. According to Sahara reporters, her relatives called to inform them of her demise in the early hours of today. Ms. Ejelonu had been kept in ...

Mrs Decontee Sawyerr, widow of Late Patrick Sawyerr, the Liberian man who came into Nigeria with the deadly Ebola virus, has said her sick husband risked all to come to Nigeria because he believed so much in the health system here & wanted to be properly diagnosed and treated. She ...

To prevent being infected with the deadly Ebola virus, two people in Makurdi, Benue who believed salt could help prevent contracting the virus have been confirmed dead. Dr Joseph Kumba, Director, Public Health in the Ministry of Health and Human Services confirmed the report. �We got the report at a ...

One of the nurses who had previously had contact with the Liberian Ebola patient Patrick Sawyer, fled her quarantine center in Lagos and returned to her home in Enugu, exposing about 20 people who she came in contact with to the deadly virus. Information Minister Labaran Makuwho disclosed this said ...

The First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Patience Jonathan on arrival at the Gdansk Walesa International Airport on Wednesday 13th August 2014, was pictured greeting officials and aides at a respectable distance with a palm-rubbing acknowledgement. It is being referred as the new way to greet as a ...

Leadership by example….. Some state governors, Ministers of Health, Information & FCT are right now in the Villa attending a special meeting with President Jonathan on the Ebola Virus disease.

EFF’s motor mouth, Julius Malema, has accused President Jacob Zuma of practicing witchcraft. This is after two mermaids were found in Nkandla’s �fire pool”, allegedly alive and kicking. A leaked picture of the mysterious mermaids has been circulating social networks throughout the week, with many expressing their shock while others ...

An Australian man Andrew Sayer who resides in Melbourne is presently searching for a Nigerian friend Oghenekohwo whom he fears may have contracted the deadly Ebola virus. The Australian made the disclosure on Twitter hours ago and the tweets have since gone viral. According to him, this ‘Nigerian’ friend of ...

The National Health Research Ethics Committee, Nigeria, has approved the use of an experimental Ebola drug, Zmapp, for treatment of patients infected with the virus. The committee, which composed research scientists, is a national body under the Federal Ministry of Health. The endorsement is contained in a statement issued to ...

In curtailing the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, some private hospitals in Lagos have allegedly stated chasing out patients with fever. The few ones that accept the patients allegedly compel them to wash their hands and apply sanitizers before proceeding into their building. The guys at the News Agency ...

Two years after the ill-fated Dana plane crash which claimed 153 lives on�the 3rd�of June 2012, 106 relatives�ofthe passengers�have received�insurance�claims totalling $5.05m (N821m).The Managing�Director, Prestige Assurance Plc, Mr. Anand Mittal, disclosed this to Punch �As of August 11, 2014, we have made advance payments to 106 passengers and final payments ...

Nigeria has recorded another death from� virus in Nigeria. The first two being Sawyerr and a Nigerian nurse. Find the full text of the ECOWAS statement after the cut… “The ECOWAS Commission announces with deep regret the passing of a staff member of its Lagos Liaison Office, Mr. Jatto Asihu ...

The Spanish priest, Miguel Pajares who was infected with the Ebola Virus in Liberia and was later flown back to his country has died�this morning.   The priest�who had started taking the experimental drugs died�this morning�at a Madrid hospital.   Spain’s Ministry of Heath have also�confirmed�his death.

The Ebola drug given to two Americans and a Spanish priest has been sent to a West African country that requested it, and the supply of the medicine is now exhausted, its manufacturer said. Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc., based in San Diego, said it was told by U.S. health officials that ...

The Ivory Coast announced Monday that it has banned all flights from countries hit by the deadly Ebola virus. The government said in a statement that it has banned all carriers from transporting passengers from these countries. It has also suspended flights by its national airline to and from these ...

The Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, His Eminence, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, has asked Rev. Fathers to start a new procedure of giving the Holy Communion to check likely spread of the Ebola virus. The Holy Communion will now be given on the palm as against placing it on the tongue of ...

2 feared dead, others hospitalised in Jos after excess salt consumption to prevent Ebola The rumour that Ebola could be prevented via consumption if salt seems to have caused some their lives. According to Thisday, At least two persons have been feared killed and 20 others hospitalised in various hospitals ...

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Friday in Abuja declared the control and containment of the Ebola virus in Nigeria, a National Emergency. Accordingly, the President has directed the Federal Ministry of Health to work in collaboration with the State Ministries of Health, the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), the National ...