Let's Help The Media Be Better On Ebola
Over at Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall has noted an important milestone in our ongoing fight with Ebola: This past Sunday was the last day of the quarantine imposed on those who had the closest...
View ArticleFrance, Germany to partner Nigeria on governmental matters (Government of the...
(Source: Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria) ABUJA (Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs Report) - The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Aminu Bashir Wali (Ambassador) has disclosed in a Joint...
View ArticleEbola panic: who’s afraid of the stuff we should be afraid of?
Almost as much coverage has been devoted recently to the panic surrounding Ebola as to the disease itself, with dramatic over-reactions highlighted and alarmist media coverage scrutinised. It’s as if...
View Article10,000 contracted Ebola in West Africa, WHO reports
JOHANNESBURG — More than 10,000 people in West Africa are believed to have contracted Ebola in the biggest outbreak of the deadly disease, and nearly 5,000 have died, according to the latest World...
View ArticleNigeria declared Ebola free after six weeks with no new cases
NIGERIA has been declared Ebola free with no new cases were reported in the last six weeks. In an extraordinary victory Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, with 160 million people — had just...
View ArticleEbola Has Already Mutated More Than 300 Times
View photo. REUTERS/Frederick Murphy/CDC/Handout Every time the virus makes a copy of itself, there's the possibility that something can change. The world has never seen an Ebola epidemic like this...
View ArticleEbola crisis: Worst-hit African nations get key supplies
Vital supplies and resources to tackle Ebola are beginning to arrive in the three worst-hit West African countries, Ghana's President John Mahama has said. Mr Mahama, who heads the regional bloc...
View ArticleEbola crisis: Fresh UK deployment to Sierra Leone
About 100 soldiers from the Royal Army Medical Corps are due to travel to Sierra Leone as part of the UK's efforts to tackle the Ebola outbreak. International Development Secretary Justine Greening...
View Article>Nigeria declared Ebola-free; 'spectacular success'
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Water laced with salt and sugar, and gallons of the nasty-tasting stuff. Doctors who survived Ebola in Nigeria credited heavy doses of fluids with saving their lives as the World...
View ArticleNigeria declared Ebola-free; `spectacular success'
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- Water laced with salt and sugar, and gallons of the nasty-tasting stuff. Doctors who survived Ebola in Nigeria credited heavy doses of fluids with saving their lives as the World...
View ArticleEbola in the US: Are we letting fear win?
As it is my usual practice after work, I went to the gym on October 1, 2014. This being a gym I frequent, I am known well to the gym’s staff. On this fateful day, I was met at the gym’s entrance by the...
View ArticleOFFICIALS DECLARE NIGERIA EBOLA-FREE
ABUJA, Nigeria Water laced with salt and sugar, and gallons of the nasty-tasting stuff. Doctors who survived Ebola in Nigeria credited heavy doses of fluids with saving their lives as the World...
View ArticleEbola adds volatility to global airline stocks
Related articles African dollar-denominated bonds from Nigeria to Kenya tumble Second US healthcare worker tests positive for Ebola WHO chided for not doing enough to tackle Ebola In this article...
View ArticleEbola outbreak: Meet the men and women on the frontline against the deadly virus
Peter Piot was a young scientist in Antwerp in 1976 when an airline pilot brought into his lab a blue Thermos flask sent from a doctor in the former Zaire. It contained test tubes carrying blood from a...
View ArticleSpanish patient's Ebola levels virtually nil
October 19, 2014 -- Updated 1821 GMT (0221 HKT) Madrid (CNN) -- A Spanish nurse's aide battling Ebola has tested so low for levels of the virus in her blood, in two recent samples, that they are...
View ArticleWHO: 10,000 contracted Ebola in West Africa
Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times 4:49 p.m. EDT October 25, 2014 A child stands near a sign advising of a quarantined home in an effort to combat the spread of the Ebola virus in Port Loko, Sierra Leone....
View ArticleNigeria Ebola-free; rehydration lowers death rate
ABUJA, Nigeria — Water laced with salt and sugar, and gallons of the nasty-tasting stuff. Doctors who survived Ebola in Nigeria credited heavy doses of fluids with saving their lives as the World...
View ArticleAfricans encounter little bias in central Ohio amid Ebola crisis
When Samuel Boyabei walked into a store recently, a man noticed his accent and asked him where he was from. “I live here in Columbus,” Boyabei told him. The man then said, “I hope you’re not from west...
View ArticleEbola: Is media coverage creating panic? (poll)
Is media coverage of Ebola spreading panic? On CNN, Ashleigh Banfield appeared behind a banner reading, "Ebola: The ISIS of biological agents?" On Fox News, Steve Doocy suggested that the Centers for...
View ArticleEbola cases surpass 10,000
JOHANNESBURG — – More than 10,000 people in West Africa are believed to have contracted Ebola in the biggest outbreak of the deadly disease, and nearly 5,000 have died, according to the latest World...
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