An Italian doctor who contracted Ebola in west
Africa is recovering but is still in an isolation unit,
the specialist clinic in Rome treating him said
Monday.
The Spallanzani institute said on Twitter that the
50-year-old medic — who has not been named —
was in a “good condition” and was “recovering in
isolation”.
The father of two was repatriated in November
from Sierra Leone with a fever and given an
experimental drug to try to combat the often-
deadly virus.
The doctor — who became the first...
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Monday, 22 December 2014
Tuesday, 9 September 2014
06:41
Unknown
Empty hospital…….no doctors
The Federal Government has issued a Certification of
Decontamination to First Consultants Medical Centre, the hospital in
Lagos which treated Nigeria’s Ebola index case, Patrick Sawyer. They
have also been given the permission to re-open for business.
In two letters from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and
the Lagos...
06:40
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The
Commissioner for Information in Delta State, Chike Ogeah, has debunked
the rumours that the Ebola virus had spread into Delta State.
Speaking
on the Monday edition of Sunrise Daily on Channels Television, he
explained that a severely ill patient was indeed brought into the
Federal Medical Centre in Asaba with...
Saturday, 6 September 2014
07:53
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The
Nigerian government is monitoring nearly 400 people for signs of Ebola
after they came in contact with a Port Harcourt doctor, who died of the
disease, Reuters reported on Thursday.
Dr. Abdulsalami Nasidi,
project director at Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, said there was a
sense of “hopelessness” due to the lack of proven drugs or vaccines to
treat Ebola that has infected...
07:28
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Many
Nigerians have disagreed with the new directive by the federal
government that all private and public primary, secondary schools resume
September 22.
The reviewed date made public on Friday was a reverse of the initial October 13 date approved by the Federal Executive Council, FEC.
The
federal government had considered the option of keeping all schools
closed as a precautionary measure...
Thursday, 4 September 2014
11:39
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The first confirmed Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, case in Rivers State
of whom the victim was among the three persons quarantined in Oduoha,
Emohua Local Government Area, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has died of
the disease.
The death of the patient- elderly woman brings to
seven Ebola fatalities to have been recorded in the country, and the
first death in the new Port Harcourt isolation...
Saturday, 30 August 2014
Wednesday, 20 August 2014
12:17
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A 48-year-old British woman who collapsed and died in Austria following a trip to Nigeria did not die from the Ebola Virus Disease.
Head of the regional health board in Austria, Franz Katzgraber, said
tests had ruled out the Ebola virus but the cause of death remained
unknown.
The woman had travelled from Nigeria...
12:15
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The
outbreak of Ebola disease has prompted various organizations to join
the campaign to promote the washing of hands and the need to pay
attention to personal hygiene.
Ahead of the Nigeria Bar Association
(NBA) Conference, the President of the Association, Mr Okay Wali,
educated lawyers on the need to ensure that...
11:45
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The
Nigerian President, on Tuesday, paid tribute to medical officers who
recently treated the late American-Liberian, Patrick Sawyer, and in the
process got infected with the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease.
While
sympathising with the families of those who died in the process, the
President promised that his administration...
11:35
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Here is what Stella Damasus wrote in honour of the late Dr Ameyo Adadevoh,who died of the Ebola virus after coming in contact with Patrick Sawyer
Kind and beautiful Dr ameyo Adadevoh stood her ground to protect
Nigeria. She refused to allow me sawyer leave first consultants hospital
even when the Liberian ambassador pressured her to release him. Imagine
what would have happened if she had...
11:29
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The
Liberian President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has imposed a night- time
curfew and quarantined two affected neighbourhoods in a bid to stop the Ebola epidemic rampaging through West Africa.
The new quarantine areas include Monrovia’s West Point slum.
The President said that the commencement of the curfew would start on...
11:22
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Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, on Wednesday disclosed that about 198 cases of Ebola virus infections have been recorded in the country.
Out of these, he said, 177. Aresaid to be in Lagos, while the remaining 21 are in Enugu.
Briefing
State House correspondents after the meeting of the Federal Executive
Council (FEC) presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan, Maku hinted
that the weekly...
11:20
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Lagos State Goverbment has disclosed the discovery of five new cases of Ebola Virus Disease in the State.
It said the patients were brought to the Yaba Mainland Hospital, Lagos, on Tuesday.
Health Commissioner, Jide Idris, told newsmen on Wednesday that two of those cases were from secondary contacts.
“Till date, we have recorded eight suspected cases, five of which came in yesterday, 12 confirmed.
“On
...
Tuesday, 19 August 2014
22:26
Sergio kun
Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh, the consultant physician, who
had contracted the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) from the
Liberian, Mr. Patrick Sawyer, is dead.
Thisday Newspaper reported Tuesday night that
sources close to Adadevoh, 58, said she succumbed to
the disease Tuesday evening.
Adadevoh, NewsGenesis recalls, led the medical team at
First Consultants Medical Centre, a Lagos-based
hospital, that treated...
07:16
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Scores of bush meat
sellers on Monday trooped to Governor Abiola Ajimobi’s office at the
Oyo State Secretariat, Ibadan, complaining of low patronage which they
attributed to the outbreak of the Ebola disease.
The women under
the aegis of Bushmeat Sellers Association were of the complaint that
since the announcement that the deadly disease could be caused by
consumption of bush meat,...
07:11
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The Permanent Security, Primary Healthcare Board in Lagos State, Dr. Oguntimehin Olukayode, has said that five patients in the last days have had no symptoms of the Ebola virus.
He explained that a blood test was carried on the patients to ensure
that they were viral negative before the process of discharging them was
...
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