The deadly Ebola virus has infected 300 people in Congo since an outbreak erupted almost two months ago in the country’s east, the health ministry said on Tuesday. Ebola is a deadly disease caused by a virus, though there are…
Ebola death toll in DR Congo ‘rises’ (BBC)
More than 25,000 people have been innoculated in DR Congo since August The Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has claimed 180 lives, AFP news agency reports the health ministry as saying. The ministry is reported as saying…
Monkeypox found the UK for the first time (DailyMail)
Health officials Saturday night trying to avert an outbreak of a potentially deadly African virus related to smallpox after the first person ever was diagnosed with monkeypox in the UK. They said a Nigerian individual who flew into the UK…
Doctor among Ebola infected persons in Congo (Vanguard)
A doctor in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is hospitalised with Ebola, and 97 of his contacts have been identified in an area almost entirely surrounded by armed militia, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday. “It is…
Why this High Rate of Marital Infidelity and Suicides In Nigeria? – Magnus Onyibe
Anything that pushes a human being to take his/her own life by taking a plunge into the ocean with the sole intention of dying or stabbing/shooting/poisoning a fellow human being to death must be very tense and grave. That’s simply…
Losing my virginity in the time of ebola by Oshoko Bushushu
So, the publisher of thisislagos kept calling all of last week and I kept avoiding his calls. Then the texts started coming: “Bro, your piece is late. No sexcapades this week?” I ignored them. Why? Because I don’t write fiction.…
2 fleeing Ebola patients dead (Vanguard)
Doctors have confirmed that two out of the three people with Ebola who fled the hospital in DR Congo on Wednesday are dead. Two of them died after returning home, Doctors without Borders (MSF) said. “Between Sunday May 20 and…
* Half of Olusosun dump covered with sand (Nation) * Lagos reactivates Ebola isolation Centre (Nation)
THISISLAGOS MIDDAY NEWS UPDATE MAY 21, 2018 Half of Olusosun dump covered with sand (Nation) Lagos State Commissioner for Environment Babatunde Durosinmi-Etti said half of the 47-hectare Olusosun Metropolitan Dump in Ojota has been capped. Capping is the covering…
Ebola deaths in Congo rise to 26, health ministry says
Congo’s health ministry says there is one new death from Ebola, bringing to 26 the number of deaths from the deadly outbreak in Equateur province in the country’s northwest. Four new cases have been confirmed as Ebola, said the health…
Ebola: WHO chief arrives DR Congo (PremiumTimes)
Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organisation (WHO), has arrived Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), to assess the needs of Ebola response teams. The director general announced this on his Twitter handle @DrTedros on Sunday. He…