Ebola alleged Test Drug is Working: US Doctor With Ebola Set To Be Discharged Today!

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Dr Kent Brantly, the American doctor who contracted the deadly Ebola virus in Liberia while working as a missionary in the country will be released from Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital today August 21st after being successful treated.
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Ebola: Lagos records 5 new suspected cases.

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The Lagos State government has announced that 5 new suspected cases of Ebola virus have already been recorded at the Yaba Isolation Centre. The state Commissioner for health, Dr Jide Idris made this known today while addressing journalists. Dr Idris stated that two of the five new cases were from secondary contacts and that 213 people are now observed 

"Till date, we have recorded eight suspected cases, five of which came in yesterday August 19th, 12 confirmed. On the whole, five have died (including the index case). We are currently following up 213 contacts, and 62 have completed the two-day follow-up,” Dr Jide said

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Ebola Update: NNPC Doctor Tested Positive to Ebola

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A government source reveals to Sahara Reporters a medical doctor at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) clinic in Lagos, has developed Ebola symptoms. The doctor was allegedly among the doctors who treated Patrick Sawyer. The suspected victim who's considered to be a female is said to have  been previously treated and discharged, but was later brought back into quarantine to be observed and retested.

Ebola : 5 patients almost fully recovered

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Nigeria’s health minister, Onyebuchi Chukwu announced yesterday evening that 5 patients infected with Ebola are nearing full recovery.
His statement read;
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PhotoNews: Touching Photos from Liberia as country battles spreading Ebola epidermic

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A mother and child stand on top of a mattress in an Ebola isolation station in Liberia for suspected victims of the virus

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Ebola: FG Postpones Resumption of Schools until further notice.

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To prevent further  outbreak of the Ebola Viral Disease (EVD), the Federal Government has reportedly approved the extension of the present holiday of primary and secondary schools around the country until further notice.

NewTelegraph reports that the development, government stated, is part of measures to curb the spread of Ebola. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Youth and Students Matters, Comrade Jude Imagwe, who disclosed the postponement of school resumption in Abuja yesterday did not state 

Ebola & the $1bn question

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Like Boko Haram’s crazy insurgents who kill their victims and the soldiers who fight to protect them, the Ebola Virus Disease kills its victims along with some medical personnel who battle to save their lives. These are the twin devils of the season.  The twin scourges of 2014 share many other characteristics. Their roots date back to decades, but their ravages of human souls across the sub-Sahara Africa only peaked this year, even as a disbelieving world is left agape by their ferocity.

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Ebola: FG employs 490 environmental health officers

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The Federal Government on Wednesday assured Nigerians so it would recruit 490 trained environmental health officers who will soon be deployed in borders within strategies being employed to fight the deadly Ebola Virus Disease.  The  government also pledged to educate people on the best way to stop the spread of the illness and other related diseases in the country.

Ebola Update: FG says 198 Nigerians quarantined

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The Federal Government on Wednesday said a total of 198 persons are currently being quarantined for the Ebola Virus Disease. It said while 177 are being quarantined in Lagos where the index case was reported, 21 persons are being attended to in Enugu. Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents of the outcome of the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan.

Ebola: Sawyer’s Trip To Nigeria Infuriates Me, He's A ‘Crazy Man’ ---- Pres.Jonathan

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President Goodluck Jonathan has described late Patrick Sawyer’s actions of coming into Nigeria especially, despite carrying the Ebola virus, as ‘crazy’.

Jonathan made the statement at the annual Interfaith Conference in Abuja.

The President, who expressed his disappointment with the way and manner Sawyer brought Ebola to Nigeria, however, assured citizens that government was ready to stop the spread of Ebola.

“As a government, we promise that we will do everything humanly possible to contain the Ebola virus”, Jonathan added.

2nd Lagos nurse tests positive for Ebola -FG

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Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, said on Monday that another Lagos nurse has tested positive to the Ebola Virus Disease. The development came 22 days after the first first case of the virus was recorded. The minister explained that the newly married nurse was among those that had direct contact with the late Liberian man, Patrick Sawyer, who imported the disease to Nigeria.
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1st Victim of the Ebola Outbreak Identified in Guinea

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A two-year-old boy from a remote village in Guinea has been identified as the 'patient zero' in the deadliest-yet Ebola outbreak, DailyMail reports. Epidemiologists believe the boy from the village of Meliandou, Guéckédou province, suffered with fever, black stools and vomiting for just four days until he died on December 6. Seven days later, his mother died too, followed by his three-year-old sister, who fell sick on Christmas Day and was dead before she could see the New Year. Guéckédou sits by the borders with both Sierra Leone and Liberia. 
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"Hong Kong Patient Not Infected with Ebola - Reports"

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Test results of the man, hospitalized in Hong Kong on suspicion of having Ebola virus upon arrival from Nigeria, came negative, Reuters reported on Sunday, citing Hong Kong’s health department.
The 32-year-old patient was put in isolation on Sunday due to diarrhea and vomiting, which can be symptoms of Ebola, after he returned from the West African country. He is now in a stable condition, the agency said, citing the health department.
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Bitter Kola & Ebola: What Nigerians Need to know - Health Minister

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Speaking about Dr. Maurice Iwu's thesis regarding bitter kola and Ebola (Iwu said Kolanut could cure Ebola - predicated on research), Nigerian Health Minister Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu said the  government is considering making laws to arrest those who make bogus claims to truly have a remedy for Ebola, and said Nigeria needs to work with Dr. Iwu. The Minister said told Vanguard;

Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu

"One of the things we decided to focus on by setting up that committee is to streamline claims of possible scientific cure, not a situation where pastors and imams claim  they can cure Ebola.   We might even go to the extent of making laws to arrest people with such bogus claims. We would take every suggestion seriously. About Professor Iwu, we know that quite a number of Nigerians accessed his article through the internet.

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Images: Family Relatives of Ebola patients Dump their Dead Body in the streets in Liberia

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 In Liberia where in fact the deadly disease is actually spreading, relatives of Ebola victims have started dumping infected bodies of their family members in the streets of Monrovia for fear about catching the deadly disease, defying government order to leave the relatives at home. Liberia's Information Minister, Lewis Brown, told Reuters that act is putting more folks at risk 

"They are removing the bodies from their homes and are putting them out in the street. They're exposing themselves to the risk of being contaminated. We're asking people to please leave the bodies in their homes and we'll pick them up.'

 Usually whenever a relative is found to be contaminated with the Ebola virus, government quarantines the remaining family. Minus catching the disease, that is another reason relatives are dumping bodies in the street, in order to avoid facing quarantine, and having their homes decontaminated.

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Ebola : Price of bitter kola skyrockets in Abia

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Investigations by The PUNCH have revealed that the price of bitter kola across Abia markets has tripled following the recent speculation that the medicinal seed has the potency to cure the dreaded Ebola pandemic now ravaging some West African countries.

There have  been palpable fear and anxiety  across the state since last week following the report of a corpse in the neighbouring Anambra State suspected to have died of Ebola.

Despite assurances by the state government of its preparedness to contain the possible outbreak of the pandemic as some hospital wards had been designated to treat likely victims, residents still remain apprehensive.

Spain evacuates priest with U.S patented Ebola virus from Liberia

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Spanish Government said that an air force plane was leaving Madrid on Wednesday to pick up a Spanish priest who has tested positive for the Ebola virus in Liberia.  The Spanish defence ministry said this was in line with the strict security and quarantine guidelines stipulated by the World Health Organisation.

The priest is the third foreigner to be evacuated from Liberia after an American doctor suffering from Ebola was flown to Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday.  Meanwhile, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf had declared three days of fasting and prayer with which to seek God’s mercy with regards to the Ebola outbreak that has killed 263 people across the country.

US Found Cure For Ebola?

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The family of Nancy Writebol, one of the missionary medical practitioners that contracted the Ebola virus while on a joint Samaritan’s Purse-SIM team, was already planning her funeral as she lay stricken with Ebola in Liberia amid the disease’s deadliest recorded outbreak.

She and her colleague, Dr. Kent Brantly, who have both been flown to the United States are defying odds to stay alive…and seem to be getting better.  Writebol’s two sons expect to communicate with her soon, Johnson said. The family was considering funeral arrangements for her just last week, days after she became sick, David Writebol said through Johnson.

Ebola Scare: South Korean University Cancels Invitation For 3 Nigerians

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A South Korean university has rescinded an invitation for 3 Nigerians to go for a conference while several South Korean medical volunteers called off a visit to West Africa amid growing concerns about the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.

  
According to Reuters, the Duksung Women's University in Seoul said in a statement the school "politely withdrew" its invitation for three Nigerian students to attend an international conference that it is co-hosting with the United Nations starting from Monday.
  

Ebola: Two Liberians Dropped Dead on Street after No one Agreed to Touch Them

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Health workers, on Sunday, turned up in Monrovia, Liberia's capital to remove two bodies of possible victims of the Ebola virus, four days after they dropped dead there when nobody would take them to hospital. 

Reuters reports that Nema Red, a resident of Clara Town, said the two men who lay dead in the street for days had shown symptoms of Ebola such as bleeding and vomiting. 

"They started seeking help from the community to take them to the hospital, but community members ran for their lives ... they both gave up and dropped dead on the
ground in the streets of Clara Town," she said, saying they lay there four days.