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Ebola Latest: Another Nurse Dies, Doctor In Bad State

ABUJA — A nurse, Justina Obi Echelonu, one of the primary contacts who participated in the i…

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FG Orders Sack Of Striking Doctors

…stops residency training in hospitals The Federal Government has directed that emergency…

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#Ebola - Nigerian Victims Not Receiving Adequate Treatment - Relatives

  The families and friends of quarantined Ebola patients have described the condition th…

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WHO: Magnitude Of Ebola Virus Death Toll "Vastly Underestimated"

  According to the World Health Organization, evidence suggests the death toll from the Ebo…

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Head of Service Flays Striking Medical Doctors #nmastrike

The outgoing Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HOS), Bukar Aji has called on members of…

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# EBOLA: Press Statement by the Minister of Health on 14th August 2014

PRESS STATEMENT BY THE HONOURABLE MINISTER OF HEALTH, PROFESSOR C. O. ONYEBUCHI CHUKWU ON THE 14th…

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BREAKING NEWS: Jonathan Sacks Striking Doctors

President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the sack of doctors across federal hospitals in Nigeria, …

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Contain Ebola in Africa or Prepare to Fight It Around the World, Aid Worker Tells Congress

  "The disease is out of control ... if we don't fight and contain this in Afri…

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Nigeria Reports New Case of Ebola, Fears of Spread Beyond Lagos Ease

  Nigeria has reported one new case of Ebola, with the disease so far confined to Lagos …

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Another Nigerian Nurse Dies Of Ebola

  Another nurse, Justina Obi Ejelonu who attended to late Liberian Patrick Sawyer while …

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Debate Over Drugs As African Medics Die Of Ebola

DOCTORS treating a leading Sierra Leone physician, who became sick with Ebola considered giving hi…

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Press Release By The Nigerian Medical Association On Combating The Challenge Of Ebola Viral Disease In Nigeria.

The Nigerian Medical :Association (NMA) wishes to commend President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan GCFR f…

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FG Hires 490 Health Officers

The Federal Government on Wednesday assured Nigerians that it would recruit 490 trained environmen…

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Insist On Protective Equipment, NMA Tells Members

The Nigerian Medical Association has urged doctors and nurses to insist on being given Personal Pr…

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Bioengineers Create Functional 3-D Brain-Like Tissue

Bioengineers have created three-dimensional brain-like tissue that functions like and has structur…

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When Malaria Strikes Children

Malaria is a common infection in hot, tropical areas but can also occur (very rarely) in temperate…

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Scientists Discover How Ebola Virus Disables Immune Response

  SCIENTISTS say they have found how the lethal Ebola virus blocks and disables the body&rs…

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Escapee Nurse, Husband Arrested, Returned To Lagos

  There was anxiety among residents of Enugu following reports that 21 persons had been …

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WHO: Ebola Cases Near 2,000, With More Than Half Dead

  . WHO has recorded 127 more cases, 56 deaths in two days . Sample doses of the exp…

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Inside the Ebola outbreak with the CDC

  . The CDC has sent nine people to Lagos, Nigeria, to fight the Ebola outbreak . The Wor…

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