As Morocco remains firm in its stance to postpone the Africans Nations Cup due to the Ebola outbreak, South Africa and Ghana were approached to host the said event.
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Beckham pitches in to combat Ebola
Soccer star David Beckham is pitching in the fight against the Ebola outbreak with two public service videos.
Spain remains on high alert regarding Ebola
Spain remains on high alert regarding Ebola as six new cases were recorded.
Several schools in Texas close down due to Ebola scare
Concerns about Ebola exposure prompted several schools in Texas to close down.
UN Secretary General appeals for fund to fight against Ebola
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon appealed for more funds that will beuilized in the fight against Ebola.
NAIA prepares special isolation room for passengers from countries with Ebola cases while Senate discusses government preparedness regarding the disease
The Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) prepares a special isolation room for passengers coming from countries with Ebola cases. Meanwhile, the Senate will conduct discussions aiming to find out the level of preparedness of the government and the Philippine medical community if the Ebola virus manages to enter the country.
DOH conducts specialized training for health workers
Although the government already made a statement that it will not send health workers to west Africa, the Department of Health, together with the World Health Organization conducted specialized training to counter the dreaded Ebola virus.
Suspected Ebola case on Air France flight in Madrid
(Reuters) – Madrid’s Barajas international airport activated emergency measures on Thursday after a passenger arriving on an Air France flight was suspected of possibly having Ebola, a spokeswoman for airports operator Aena said. Spain’s health ministry confirmed that an Ebola emergency protocol had been set in motion but declined to give details. Aena and Air France said in separate statements that a passenger on Air France 1300 from Lagos via Paris had started shaking during the flight. Air France […]
U.S. health official allowed new Ebola patient on plane with slight fever
(Reuters) – A second Texas nurse who has contracted Ebola told a U.S. health official she had a slight fever and was allowed to board a plane from Ohio to Texas, a federal source said on Wednesday, intensifying concerns about the U.S. response to the deadly virus. The nurse, Amber Vinson, 29, flew from Cleveland to Dallas on Monday, the day before she was diagnosed with Ebola, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention […]
Second Texas healthcare worker tests positive for Ebola
(Reuters) – A second Texas healthcare worker who treated the first patient in the United States to be diagnosed with Ebola has tested positive for the disease, the Texas Department of State Health Services said in a statement on Wednesday. The worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, was immediately isolated after reporting a fever on Tuesday, the department said. “Health officials have interviewed the latest patient to quickly identify […]
U.S. sets up rapid-response Ebola team; Dallas nurse improves
BY TERRY WADE (Reuters) – The United States is establishing a rapid-response team to help hospitals “within hours” whenever there is a case of Ebola, the top doctor leading the fight against the deadly virus said on Tuesday. Prospects for a quick end to the contagion fell as the World Health Organization (WHO) predicted that three impoverished countries in West Africa – Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea – could produce as many as 10,000 new cases […]
Ebola patient in Germany died of “severe case of disease,” doctor says
(Reuters) — A U.N. medical official who caught Ebola while working in Liberia and died in a German hospital suffered from a “severe cases of the disease,” a chief physician said in Leipzig on Tuesday (October 14). Bernhard Ruf of the department of infectious and tropical diseases and nephrology at St.Georg clinic said in a video message released by the hospital that “the patient who was hospitalised … and was treated with a severe case of Ebola died yesterday due to a very severe case of the disease […]
