Ebola outbreak will take six months to control - Doctors Without Borders

It will take about six months to bring under control the Ebola epidemic, the head of Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Friday, saying the outbreak in West Africa felt like “wartime, is moving, advancing.”

Joanne Liu, international president of MSF (Doctors Without Borders), speaking after a 10-day trip to West Africa, said more experts were needed on the ground and was critical of the World Health Organisation (WHO) for declaring Ebola a “public health emergency of international concern” only on August 8

Ebola experimental drug 'Nanosilver' is a pesticide US warns

We rejoiced when we heard that an experimental drug called 'Nanosilver' developed by a Nigerian in diaspora for the treatment of Ebola has arrived the country. 

But now, despite the experimental drug getting approval for use by the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is claiming that Nanosilver is a pesticide

FG sacks 16,000 Doctors

 President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday sacked resident doctors working in Federal Government hospitals.

This action came in the heat of the hoopla the few cases of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) has caused.

A Federal Government circular on August 13 said the action was taken to address the challenges in the Health sector.


Since July 1, over 16,000 resident doctors had been on strike. They turned down all entreaties from the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) and other stakeholders to cooperate with the government in the fight against the Ebola virus.

Another Nigerian nurse dies of Ebola in Lagos

Photo: Another Nigerian nurse dies of Ebola

Another nurse, 25 ear old Justina Obi Ejelonu, (pictured above) who attended to late Liberian Patrick Sawyer while he was ill at the First Consultant hospital in Lagos, has died.

 

According to Sahara reporters, her relatives called to inform them of her demise this morning. Ms. Ejelonu had been kept in a quarantine facility in Lagos and was very vocal in the campaign for the release of the ZMapp experimental drug to Nigerian Ebola disease patients. 

I do not owe Nigeria any apology says Liberian Minister who cleared Patrick Sawyer to travel

The Liberian Minister who approved late Patrick Sawyer's trip to Nigeria has angrily reacted after he was criticized for letting Sawyer, a staff of the Liberian government, leave Liberia for Nigeria despite Liberian health officials placing him on Ebola danger list.

Deputy Finance Minister Sebastian Muah Omar told a Facebook user who asked him why he made such a decision that he does not owe him any explanation. He also said he wasn't late Sawyer's doctor to stop him from traveling.

Nigerian scientist develops trial Ebola drug, 'Nano Silver' for the treatment of Ebola Virus Disease

The Federal Government is to receive Nano Silver trial drug for the treatment of Ebola Virus Disease patients, it was learnt.


The drug is from Nigerian scientist.

Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu said yesterday at a Press Briefing in Abuja said it has been used experimentally for many things.

Primary four pupil allegedly raped in school toilet by her teacher

A 10-year-old primary four pupil has told the police how her teacher, Adeniran Adebayo, allegedly took advantage of her and defiled her inside the school toilet.

The victim said her health teacher threatened to flog her if she made a noise while he had sex with her in the toilet.


She said one of the female teachers in the school, however, heard her cry and barged into the toilet, forcing Adebayo, a father of two, to stop and hurriedly dress up.

Nigerian nurse with suspected Ebola, fled quarantine centre in Lagos for Enugu

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A nurse who had close contact with a Liberian Ebola patient skipped quarantine in Lagos and went to her home in the eastern city of Enugu, where she made contact with 20 other people, the government said on Wednesday.


Information Minister Labaran Maku said the nurse, herself a suspected case, and her 20 contacts were all under surveillance in Enugu.

We gathered that while 177 are being quarantined in Lagos where the index case was reported, 21 persons are being attended to in Enugu

US ‘to send’ untested, experimental Ebola drug to Liberia

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, after a direct appeal to US President Barack Obama on Friday.

However, a spokesperson for the US Health and Human Services (HHS) Department said US authorities had simply assisted in connecting the Liberian government with the drug’s manufacturer

How Lagos nursing mother contracted Ebola virus

A medical doctor has revealed how a nursing mother contracted the deadly Ebola virus at a Lagos hospital.

It was learnt that the woman was the patient who visited the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation staff clinic on Muri Okunola Street in the Victoria Island area of Lagos.


NNPC had issued a press statement on Friday, saying that the clinic would be shut due to a suspected case of Ebola reported in the clinic.