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The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), Mr Jide Idris, has said the N10 billion emergency intervention fund approved by the federal government was intended to strengthen preparedness for Ebola and other endemic diseases, including Lassa fever.
Twenty people associated with Kenya’s first case of Ebola Bundibugyo virus disease have been reunited with their families after being released from quarantine following completion of the mandatory 21-day monitoring period.
A team of leading Ebola scientists will travel to Nigeria to help investigate how the country’s first patient in more than a decade got infected, Africa CDC Director-General Jean Kaseya said.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has expressed doubts about the two deaths.
A nurse has been killed and a second health worker seriously injured after youths attacked them as they responded to an Ebola alert in the north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
The US is introducing a mandatory health declaration for all international air travellers entering the country to help limit the spread of Ebola.
Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale has revealed that Kenya could be declared Ebola-free after completing 42 days without a new case, provided the remaining patients recover and the country meets the required World Health Organization protocols.
A second person has died from the Ebola virus in Kenya, according to local authorities.