West African nations affected by the worst-ever outbreak of Ebola have been urged to screen “all people at international airports, seaports and major land crossings” in order to stop its spread. The World Health Organisation said on Monday that authorities should stop anyone with signs of the virus from travelling,[…]
A South African man admitted to Charlotte Maxeke Hospital for suspected Ebola tested negative, the health ministry said on Monday. “The condition of the patient is stable and the results of the Ebola virus disease are negative,” spokesman Joe Maila said in a statement. “We have also conducted the tests[…]
A 37-year-old South African man, working as health and safety officer in a mining operation in Liberia, was admitted to hospital on Sunday, the department of health said. Spokesman Joe Maila said the man arrived in the country on August 6. “He was scanned as normal routine in accordance with[…]
Seventeen Ebola patients are missing after fleeing an attack on an isolation ward in Monrovia by armed youths claiming the epidemic does not exist, training the spotlight on the struggle to raise awareness in the fight against the deadly virus. “They broke down the door and looted the place. The[…]
There is no known Ebola case in South Africa, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Monday. A woman who arrived from Conakry, Guinea on July 28 through the OR Tambo International Airport was meticulously tested and was negative, Motsoaledi told reporters at the Edenvale Hospital in Johannesburg. “She was admitted[…]
Staff with the World Health Organisation battling an Ebola outbreak in West Africa see evidence the numbers of reported cases and deaths vastly underestimates the scale of the outbreak, the UN agency has said on its website. The death toll from the world’s worst outbreak of Ebola stood on Wednesday[…]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has approved the use of untested Ebola drugs to treat the current outbreak in West Africa. The WHO said at a news conference in Geneva on Tuesday that the use of untested drugs was ethical, provided certain conditions were met. The statement comes following a[…]
Liberia has said it will receive doses of an experimental Ebola drug to treat infected doctors in the West African country. A statement, published on the Liberian presidency’s website on Monday, said the United States had approved a request from Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to ship the medicine, ZMapp,[…]
South Africa urgently needs a code of practice for health officials to deal with any possible outbreak of the Ebola virus disease (EVD), the DA said on Monday. “Without a code of practice, health officials across the country do not have national guidelines to mitigate a possible medical emergency arising[…]
The Liberian army has put a third province under quarantine to check the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf announced Monday. “Lofa county in the north has been quarantined by the army,” Sirleaf said after similar measures were taken in the provinces of Boma and Grand[…]
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