An unnamed 63-year-old passenger was vomiting and died during Nigeria-US (JFK, New York) flight, but Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials provided only a ‘cursory’ examination before stating there was no Ebola.
The man boarded an Arik Air plane out of Lagos, Nigeria, on Wednesday night, but
A Nigerian passenger heading to Madrid from Paris has caused the isolation of a plane, believed to be carrying about 183 passengers, after he showed symptoms of Ebola
The Ebola outbreak has heightened tensions worldwide as a plane was today isolated at an airport in Madrid, Spain after a man, who was reportedly coming from Nigeria, fell ill with a fever and shivers.
Due to the partial success in containing the Ebola virus, the Federal Government has permitted the resumption of primary and secondary schools around the country.
After all the bad news that have been going round over the outbreak of the Ebola virus in West African countries, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, a piece of good news finally arrived some moments ago.
Reporting online in the British journal Nature, researchers at the Public Health Agency of Canada announced that a prototype drug, ZMapp, that has been urgently given to a handful of patients with Ebola has cleared an important test hurdle.
According to the scientists report, the drug test results showed that ZMapp
It would be recalled that yesterday it was unofficially reported that the doctor whose name is yet to be provided died August 22 in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, from the deadly tropical virus.
The top Nigerian health official confirmed August 28 the information:
“This primary contact of Mr. Sawyer’s evaded our surveillance team in the
Fashola disclosed this during a series of meetings with religious leaders, chairmen and health workers of the 57 local councils in the state.
He said:
“We now have 10 persons in isolation that are receiving treatment. Eight of them have been confirmed positive for the Ebola Virus Disease. We are still waiting for the results of the remaining two persons.
"All of them are stable, which means that they are not deteriorating. Five of them have really improved. This means they are fighting back. It confirms that Ebola is not an automatic death sentence if we do the right thing at the right time”
The number of cases officially on record in Nigeria has now reached 10 after the virus was brought into Lagos by Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer.
There was confusion at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos yesterday when a man slumped and died within the airport premises.
The deceased, identified as Akunne Osei, was waiting to collect his Yellow Card from Port Health officials when he lost his life.
He was said to be a resident of Accra who was heading ba
A statement as regards the event was issued by the General Manager, Corporate Communication, Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, Mr Yakubu Dati, who said:
