When it comes to religion Africans have decided that we would vacate whatever small brain power we have and enter our churches literally empty headed.
Thus we can have a situation where perfectly sane people can be convinced by their pastors to carry out the most insane acts.
An Ebola epidemic has been declared in the Democratic Republic of Congo after three people died in the country.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), one of the three deaths have been definitely confirmed to be a case of the deadly haemorrhaging fever.
The latest outbreak of the Ebola virus in Guinea has finally ended.
Guinea, the last stand for the battle after eradication in Liberia and Sierra Leone, has also been declared Ebola free.
Following Liberia and Sierra Leone, Africa’s last Ebola hub could be eradicated soon as Guinea commences the countdown to being declared Ebola free.
The last known Ebola patient in the country, a baby boy, has been treated and discharged, and tests on him have proven negative.
After a long journey of over a year, Sierra Leone has officially been declared Ebola free by the World Health Organisation.
The country has set out on the path to eradication a couple of time in the past, but has always been pulled back by the unexpected break-out of new cases.
Nigeria fiercely fought the Ebola virus when it hit their shores last year, and were successful in swiftly eradicating it; yet now face fears of a regress.
A man who died in Calabar, southern Nigeria, is said to have shown Ebola like symptoms. This led to fears of a return of the dreaded virus, the BBC reports.
Sierra Leone has been on the road to recovery for so long now it must hurt with every subsequent setback.
After recording no new cases for a fortnight, sparking hopes that the virus must be in its death throes, it reared its ugly head once again, setting the 42 day clock to eradication back to zero.
After going a whole week without recording a new case (now two), Sierra Leone was already on its way towards ending this hellish epidemic. This new milestone is just one more process along the way towards freedom.
The last patient with the virus in the country has been treated and now discharged, reports the BBC.
We barely hear about it anymore so most of us have moved on from Ebola, but for those living in the epi-centre it is a real battle on a daily basis.
Consider Sierra Leone, where going a week without a new case of the virus being registered is a huge event worth celebrating. It is a statistic that shows how damaging the outbreak has been.
This is gradually becoming problematic and if measures are not taken by all stakeholders to halt the spread the hard fight to kick it the first time turns into nought. Reports indicate two new cases of the Ebola virus has been reported in the Liberian town of Nedowein; the same town that the virus made … Read more
Seven weeks after being declared free of the Ebola pandemic, the corpse of a teenager has tested positive for the virus
We know you run a Communist regime whose people are oppressed beyond belief but please, give the rest of us some credit of having at least some basic intelligence.
Kim Jung-un claims his scientists have manufactured a miracle drug that cures three of the most feared diseases amongst man. According to the Asian dictator, the cure would be injectable and is called Kumdang-2.
The North Korean regime relies on propaganda so much because their running of the state is so terrible, if people aren’t force fed lies all the time everyone would revolt- it’s why the movie ‘The Interview’ caused so much consternation amongst the regime.
The Ministry of Health has announced that plans to hold Ebola vaccine trials in the Volta region has been suspended due to the public consternation it was causing. The Food and Drugs Authority recently announced that they have given the all clear for Ebola trials to be held in the country. This caused a lot … Read more
News of the deadly virus has gone on the down low for a while now, but for those in the affected countries it remains a very real threat they are battling every day.
It seems now even those in the very upper echelons of government are not safe from its clutches.
Sierra Leone Vice-President Samuel Sam-Sumana has had himself placed in quarantine after one of his bodyguards died from Ebola.
The Vice President would thus be placed under close observation, away from any other contact for the next 21 days. His staff would also undergo the strict quarantine procedures.
This is beyond ridiculous—and the way people seem to be grouping all Africans as having Ebola has become totally offensive, to the extent that some Africans have even lost their jobs in America over this…
In the UK, a security guard who returned from a holiday in Nigeria was shocked to find he had been banned from work because his employer fears he has Ebola.
This comes at a time when Nigeria has been declared as Ebola free by the World Health Organisation.
