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The Federal government has declared the Ebola outbreak in Nigeria a matter of national Emergency, adding that everyone is now at risk of being infected. Speaking with State House correspondence at the end of yesterday’s Federal Executive Council meeting, the Minister of Health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu said the Nigerian government has written to the Director […]

According to FrontPage Africa, the last acts of Patrick Sawyer, the Ebola infected Liberian who died in Lagos, might have resulted in the transfer of the virus to innocent health workers. Mr. Sawyer is said to have had an “indiscipline” encounter with nurses and health workers at the First Consultants Hospital in Obalende where he was […]

The minister of health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, has confirmed the death on Tuesday, of a Nigerian nurse who was infected with the Ebola virus. He also confirmed seven new cases, two days after the minister broke the news that a Nigerian doctor who treated the Liberian-American patient had also been infected with the virus. The female nurse, […]

There was gloom at the secretariat of the Nigerian Medical Association,Lagos State chapter when the association’s Chairman, Dr. Tope Ojo, disclosed that the matron of the hospital where the Liberian-born American, Patrick Sawyer, was admitted for treatment was showing symptoms of Ebola virus. The matron is one of the health workers at the Obalende, Lagos […]

Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu,  told journalists in Abuja that the doctor who attended to the American – Liberian government official, Mr Patrick Sawyer has tested positive of Ebola virus. “This new case is one of the doctors who attended to the Liberian Ebola patient who died,” said Onyebuchi Chukwu.    

Ahead of the coming African/American Leaders Summit billed for Monday in Washington DC, United States, President Barack Obama, has said some African participants attending will be screened for exposure to the dreaded Ebola virus. President Goodluck Jonathan along with his aides is among the African leaders expected to attend the event. According to a Reuters […]

With tension and apprehension surrounding the possible spread of the infectious Ebola virus,  the federal government  Saturday said the hospital where the body of the Nigerian who died in Liberia will remain sealed  pending the result of the investigation to ascertain whether the man died from causes related to Ebola disease. This came as the […]

Fears that the dreaded Ebola virus may have crept into Anambra state emerged Thursday following the discovery of the corpse of a citizen of the state brought in a cargo from Liberia and deposited in the morgue of one Apex hospital in Nkwelle Ezunaka, Oyi council Area of the state. The corpse it was gathered […]

The Federal Government has placed 69 persons who had first contact with the Liberian-born victim of Ebola Virus Disease, Patrick Sawyerr, on surveillance, while two persons have been quarantined, the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, has said. He also said government had not shut its borders for now, “except when it becomes necessary.” According […]