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New Ebola Cases Reported In Guinea

New Ebola Cases Reported In Guinea

TWO people have fallen ill with Ebola in Guinea, the World Health Organization said on Friday, dashing hopes of an imminent end to the worst recorded outbreak of the disease after a two-week spell without any new cases across West Africa. The new cases mean the epidemic, which began when a 2-year-old boy who fell […]

Ebola Virus Can Survive In the Eye, Semen, Breast Milk For 9 Months

Ebola Virus Can Survive In the Eye, Semen, Breast Milk For 9 Months

The Ebola virus can persist in the eye, semen, the placenta, breast milk and central nervous system of survivors of the disease for as long as 9 and a half months, according to a new study supported by the World Health Organization (WHO). A preliminary study on Ebola virus persistence in the semen of male […]

It’s Easy To Leave The UN Base In South Sudan But Departing Is Often Accompanied By Death

It’s Easy To Leave The UN Base In South Sudan But Departing Is Often Accompanied By Death

Whether it’s through breaks in the patchy razor-wired mud walls or out its gates, it is easy to leave the UN base here but departing is often accompanied by death. About 100 metres from the main gate of the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS), a tractor-digger clears space in a […]

Earlier Bed Delivery Could Have Halved Sierra Leone Ebola Outbreak

Earlier Bed Delivery Could Have Halved Sierra Leone Ebola Outbreak

Supplying beds for Ebola patients to health facilities in Sierra Leone saved tens of thousands of lives by isolating patients, but providing them just one month earlier could have halved the number of reported cases, researchers said on Monday. The delivery of nearly 3,000 beds by Britain, Sierra Leone and aid agencies between September 2014 […]

A British Nurse Who Contracted Ebola In Africa Last Year Has Been Hospitalised Again: Placed On Isolation

A British Nurse Who Contracted Ebola In Africa Last Year Has Been Hospitalised Again: Placed On Isolation

A British nurse who contracted Ebola is in a ‘serious condition’ in hospital today after falling ill with the deadly virus for a second time – ten days after she met Samantha Cameron in Downing Street. Pauline Cafferkey, 39, was flown from Glasgow back to the Royal Free Hospital in north London by the RAF […]

6000 Liberian Kids Lost Their Parents To Ebola: Painful Story Of What Happened To Orphans

6000 Liberian Kids Lost Their Parents To Ebola: Painful Story Of What Happened To Orphans

More than 5,900 Liberian children lost one or both parents to Ebola. Some are with a surviving parent, others found loving homes with friends or relatives, but many have been left orphaned on the streets or are finding it tough to adapt to new lives with host families. Sitting outside her former home, a now-abandoned […]

Ebola Hits Nigeria Again, 1 Dead, 10 Quarantined

Ebola Hits Nigeria Again, 1 Dead, 10 Quarantined

An Ebola scare has been reported in southern Nigeria, a year after the country was declared free of the virus, with a man reportedly dead shortly after being admitted to hospital in Calabar, Cross Rivers State. At least 10 people have been quarantined at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, after coming into contact with […]

Baby, Maternal Deaths Increase In Sierra Leone On Ebola Fear

Baby, Maternal Deaths Increase In Sierra Leone On Ebola Fear

Maternal and newborn deaths in Sierra Leone have soared since the Ebola outbreak in West Africa as fear of being infected and mistrust of health workers deter pregnant women from giving birth in health facilities, researchers said on Tuesday. Deaths of women during or just after childbirth rose by almost a third and those of […]

Guinea Heads For Presidential Election Amidst Fears Of Post-Election Violence

Guinea Heads For Presidential Election Amidst Fears Of Post-Election Violence

As the Guinean presidential election draws closer, the population is growing increasingly nervous. Many fear a repetition of the 2010 unrest and violent clashes in the capital Conakry. On October 11 some six million Guineans, about half the population of the West African nation, will elect a new president. There are eight candidates, including incumbent […]

African Civil Society Under Threat: Mary Robinson

African Civil Society Under Threat:  Mary Robinson

The decline of human rights on average across Africa is worrying Mary Robinson, the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and now a special envoy on climate change for the UN Secretary-General. Discussing this year’s Ibrahim Index of African Governance, she also underlined the need for more data on climate change. She spoke […]

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