In the latest report released by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Ebola death toll has reached 10, 000 in West Africa.
Tag: West Africa
Waning interest is biggest risk in race to overcome Ebola – WHO
Waning interest in Ebola could jeopardize efforts to stamp out the world’s worst recorded outbreak of the disease, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday (March 11). The year-old Ebola outbreak has killed 9,976 people and fears of its spread commanded headlines globally in the second half of last year. “In terms of the risks, the single biggest one probably at this point is the risk that the world stops looking at this disease, stops […]
American arrives at Atlanta hospital from West Africa for Ebola testing
(Reuters) – A U.S. healthcare worker who may have been exposed to Ebola in West Africa arrived at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta early on Thursday for testing and observation, the hospital said. The patient, who has not been identified, was flown from West Africa and will be monitored to see if he or she has been infected with the virus, the hospital said. U.S. health officials this week designated 35 hospitals nationwide, including Emory, […]
PH to send medical resources to Ebola-stricken W. Africa: PNoy
BEIJING, China, Nov 13 — President Benigno S. Aquino III said the Philippines will send medical resources in support of the global effort to help nations overwhelmed by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. President Aquino conveyed this Tuesday evening during a chat with Manila-based reporters covering his participation at the 22nd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Summit here. “Talagang severe ‘yung pressures on the health systems of the countries in West Africa, and America, […]
Philippine government to raise alert level 3 in west Africa
The Philippine government is studying the possibility of raising alert level 3 in west Africa due to the continuing threat of the Ebola virus. Said alert level will result into the voluntary repatriation of Philippine citizens in the affected countries.
U.S. military faces new kind of threat with Ebola
BY PHIL STEWART (Reuters) – At Fort Campbell in Kentucky, spouses of U.S. soldiers headed to Liberia seem to be lingering just a bit longer than usual after pre-deployment briefings, hungry for information about Ebola. For these families, the virus is raising a different kind of anxiety than the one they have weathered during 13 years of ground war in Afghanistan and Iraq. They want to know how the military can keep soldiers safe from the epidemic, a new […]
Estimated 3,100 dead due to Ebola outbreak in west Africa
An estimated 3,100 has already died due to the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Nigeria, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Meanwhile, 600,674 are recorded positive with the virus. Most number of casualties were recorded in Sierra Leone.
Obama says Africa’s Ebola epidemic “spiraling out of control”
United States President Barack Obama said the Ebola epidemic in West Africa is spiraling out of control and the global community should do more to stop the problem.
Citing security threat, Obama expands U.S. role fighting Ebola
(Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Tuesday called West Africa’s deadly Ebola outbreak a looming threat to global security and announced a major expansion of the U.S. role in trying to halt its spread, including deployment of 3,000 troops to the region. “The reality is that this epidemic is going to get worse before it gets better,” Obama said at the Atlanta headquarters of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “But, right now, the […]
Obama sends 3000 military personnel in west Africa
United States President Barack Obama said that he will send 3000 military personnel to west Africa to help battle the Ebola outbreak.
Ebola threatens food security in West Africa
(Reuters) — The world’s worst Ebola epidemic has put harvests at risk and sent food prices soaring in West Africa, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Tuesday (September 2), warning the problem would intensify in the coming months. The FAO issued a special alert for Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the three countries most affected by the outbreak, which has killed at least 1,550 people since the virus was detected in the remote jungles of southeastern Guinea in March. […]
Ebola hits 5th African country, experimental drug heals all monkeys in study
DAKAR, Aug. 30 (PNA/Xinhua) — With the first case of Ebola confirmed on Friday by Senegalese health authorities, the epidemic has spread to a fifth West African country and claimed over 1,500 lives in the region since earlier this year. Health Minister Awa Marie Coll Seck said a Guinean university student infected with Ebola has carried the deadly virus to Senegal after he slipped into the country trying to evade health surveillance for weeks. As […]
