A 19-year-old boy from Zaria, Kaduna State was on Tuesday put under isolation at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria, for exhibiting symptoms of the deadly Ebola virus disease. Kaduna State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Thot Dogo, who confirmed this to PUNCH correspondents in Kaduna, said the hospital authorities alerted the ministry when they suspected that the man, who is an undergraduate of ABU, Zaria started showing some signs of Ebola symptoms like high fever and rashes on his body after over a week he was admitted at the hospital. Dogo said the blood sample of the patient has … Continue reading Kaduna Records First Suspected Ebola Case

The Federal Government says it has reached out to the United States Centre for Disease Control to request for the unapproved Ebola drug Zmapp, for the treatment of affected persons in Nigeria. The Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku and the Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, told reporters after the Federal Executive Council meeting held in Abuja on Wednesday that the government was awaiting the response of the request it made last night to the centre in the US. Professor Chukwu said ‎that the council meeting presided over by the Vice President, Namadi Sambo, focused mainly on the measures … Continue reading FG Requests For Unapproved Ebola Drug From US

An experimental serum called ZMapp may have likely saved two American missionary workers infected with Ebola while working with the aid organization Samaritan’s Purse in Liberia. Three vials containing the experimental drug stored at subzero temperatures were flown into Liberia last week in a last-ditch effort to save the two Americans, Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol and it appears to have worked as their conditions improved significantly after receiving the medication. According to CNN report, a source with firsthand knowledge of the situation said the ZMapp vials had reached the hospital in Liberia where Brantly and Writebol were being … Continue reading Experimental Serum Likely Saved Two Americans With Ebola

Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, has just confirmed that one of the doctors who attended to Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian, who recently died of Ebola in Nigeria, is now sick with the disease. Chukwu said two other people placed under quarantine were showing signs of the disease, although it is too early to say if their symptoms relates to Ebola. Sawyer was Nigeria’s first case of Ebola death two weeks ago, and since his demise there have been widespread fears  that some of the more than 70 people he had contact with also develop the virus. – Sahara Reporters Continue reading Nigerian Doctor Who Attended To Liberian Man Comes Down With Ebola Virus In Lagos