Ebola
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The World Health Organization said Friday that two existing treatments dramatically reduced deaths from Ebola and should be given to people of all ages suffering from the often-fatal haemorrhagic disease.
14 Jul
The rise is mostly driven by the omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5, showing that the pandemic is changing but not over. It is clear that the global community would still feel more financial
7 Jul
Pandemics and large-scale outbreaks can claim millions of lives, disrupt societies and devastate economies. The devastating human, economic, and social cost of COVID-19 has highlighted the urgent need for coordinated action to build stronger health systems...
4 Jul
The Democratic Republic of Congo declared its latest Ebola outbreak over on Monday, the World Health Organization said, more than two months after the virus re-emerged in the country's northwest.
18 May
Some Nigerian friends have recently expressed concerns about China’s COVID-19 situation and showed their support to China’s efforts to fight the disease.
16 May
Prof. Innocent A. O. Ujah is the President, of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), a consultant obstetrician and gynaecological surgeon as well as the Vice-Chancellor
5 May
A new case of Ebola has been confirmed in the northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), bringing the total number of confirmed cases to three, since the 14th Ebola outbreak was declared in the country in late April.
21 Feb
According to the author quoted above, 1918 – 1919, flu killed about 50 million people but Lassa fever, Ebola and HIV-1 predicted to create greater havoc than flu...
15 Feb
The ECOWAS Court has scheduled April 12, 2022 to hear the status of the terms of settlement between a Non-Governmental Organisation and the Republic of Sierra Leone over the mismanagement of $14 million contributed by the international community to enable the country curb the Ebola epidemic.
29 Dec 2021
The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, António Guterres, has called on countries of the world to prepare for the next pandemic as COVID-19 will not be the last...
16 Dec 2021
The Democratic Republic of Congo said Thursday that the latest Ebola outbreak was officially over, as the country marked 42 days with no new cases.
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