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The Journal seeks to become the most reliable, first-choice Pan-Nigerian information and public knowledge platform. The Journal Nigeria is a serious Journalism from an African Worldview
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has identified two suspected cases of Ebola disease in the country’s North-East region, with both individuals isolated as investigations and laboratory tests continue. The agency disclosed the development in an update posted on its official social media channels on Saturday, saying contact identification and listing were…
Ebola: Nigeria Monitors 54 Contacts as NCDC Warns Outbreak Not Over Nigeria is monitoring 54 primary contacts linked to its confirmed Ebola case, even after the index patient and her husband were evacuated to Switzerland, as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention warned that the country is not yet out of the woods….
The woman at the centre of Nigeria’s first Ebola case in 12 years is infected with the Bundibugyo strain, a variant of the virus for which the World Health Organisation says there is no approved vaccine or specific treatment. Olajumoke Babatunde, Director of the Public Health Laboratory Service at the Nigeria Centre for Disease…
The Federal Government has confirmed a case of Ebola virus disease in Abuja, bringing Nigeria into a regional outbreak that has infected more than 9,500 people in Central and East Africa since May. The Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Ali Pate, said on Tuesday that the patient, a woman who had recently…
A senior official of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s ruling party has been beaten to death after appearing on a radio programme to raise awareness about the country’s worsening Ebola outbreak, according to a statement from the party. Marie-Celestin Karondwa, acting president of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) federal executive committee…
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday appealed for $1.1 billion to complete a $2.1 billion aid plan against Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, warning that operations could run out of money just as they need to expand. The programme is 48 per cent funded. “Without additional funding, vital operations will…
The Democratic Republic of Congo has begun testing two experimental therapies against the rare Bundibugyo strain of Ebola driving a deadly outbreak in its northeast, the World Health Organisation announced on Thursday, marking a critical turn in a response that has struggled to keep pace with the spread of the virus. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom…
The head of the World Health Organisation visited Uganda this week as a deadly Ebola outbreak that crossed in from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo continued to spread, with both countries now recording a sharp rise in confirmed infections and deaths. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the trip after the global health…
Global health experts have issued a stark warning that the world is now more exposed to a catastrophic pandemic than at any point in recent history, nearly a decade after Ebola and six years after COVID-19 devastated economies and overwhelmed health systems worldwide. The alarm is contained in a new report by the Global…