The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency that requires an extraordinary response to stop its spread. WHO declared similar emergencies for the swine flu pandemic in 2009 and for polio in May. The WHO chief, Dr Margaret[…]
Liberia declared a state of emergency Wednesday due to the deadly Ebola outbreak as US President Barack Obama said it was premature to send experimental drugs to victims in Africa. Declaring the state of emergency overnight President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf warned that the extraordinary measures were needed “for the very[…]
The South African Haj and Umrah Council (Sahuc) says local hujaaj do not need to worry about the Ebola virus during the haj season. In the midst of an alarming outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa, the Saudi Ministry has opted to suspend the issuance of haj and[…]
The World Health Organization on Wednesday began a two-day emergency meeting on west Africa’s Ebola epidemic, with the UN agency deciding whether to declare it an international crisis. The closed-door session is tasked with ruling whether the outbreak constitutes what is known in WHO-speak as a “public health emergency of[…]
Saudi Arabia is blocking haj pilgrims from three West African countries suffering large Ebola virus outbreaks from making the iconic Muslim visit to Makkah, while a Saudi man is being tested for the hemorrhagic fever after traveling to Sierra Leone. The Saudi Ministry of Health (MOH) announced Monday it[…]
Three of the world’s leading Ebola specialists have called for experimental drugs and vaccines to be offered to people in West Africa, where a vast outbreak of the deadly disease is raging in three countries. Noting that American aid workers who contracted the disease in Liberia were given an unapproved[…]
A doctor in the Nigerian city of Lagos who treated a Liberian victim of Ebola has contracted the virus, the second confirmed case in sub-Saharan Africa’s largest city, authorities said. Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu, who confirmed the positive test, said on Monday that 70 other people believed to have come[…]
The World Health Organization warned west Africa’s Ebola-hit nations on Friday that the epidemic was spiralling out of control and could spread to other countries, causing “catastrophic” loss of life and severe economic disruption. WHO chief Margaret Chan told the leaders of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia at a regional[…]
Sierra Leone began quarantining areas of Ebola infection, as international health officials announced an international $100m plan to combat an epidemic which has already killed more than 700 people in West Africa. Security forces set up quarantines on Thursday, hours after Sierra Leone’s president, Ernest Bai Koroma, ordered a state[…]
Global medical charity Doctors Without Borders has given warning that the Ebola crisis in West Africa is “unprecedented, absolutely out of control”, as states across the world took steps to prevent its spread. Bart Janssens, the charity’s director of operations, warned there was no overarching vision of how to tackle[…]
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