The deadly Ebola epidemic could deal a $32 billion-plus blow to the West African economy over the next year if officials cannot get it under control, the World Bank warned Wednesday...
...In the best case, Ebola being brought under control by the end of 2014, the Bank says, the economic cost will be about $359 million in the three countries this year and another $129 million next year.
For all of West Africa, the cost will run from $3.8 to $9 billion.
Three days after a fatal case of Marburg hemorrhagic fever was diagnosed in Uganda, 99 people are under isolation in four different locations across the East African country, as field epidemiologists and surveillance officers continue to closely monitor all people who got into contact with only victim.
More than 60 health workers form the bulk of people under isolation after they were identified as having contact with a 30-year old male health worker who died September 28 of Marburg -- an Ebola-like hemorrhagic fever.
Humanity is locked in a millennia-old battle to the death with diseases. The current outbreak of Ebola reminds us that as our cities get bigger and international travel easier, the risks in an outbreak grow even higher
Nigeria - As the United States deals with its first case of Ebola, many are citing Nigeria’s successful containment of the outbreak as an example to follow. Despite a fragile health care system, Africa’s most populous nation has been declared Ebola free.
Sierra Leone recorded 121 deaths from Ebola and scores of new infections in one of the single deadliest days since the disease appeared in the West African country more than four months ago, government health statistics showed on Sunday.
If contracted, Ebola is one of the world’s most deadly diseases. It is a highly infectious virus that can kill up to 90 percent of the people who catch it, causing terror among infected communities.
...All things being equal, there seemed to be a steady victory in the battle against EVD in Nigeria. The number of primary, secondary and even tertiary contacts with Sawyer on surveillance has significantly declined in Lagos, while those who are infected and on isolation have also reduced, with no new case of infection.
This is cheery news by all estimation, but not so with the Delta State government. The state insists in words and deed that no stone must be left unturned to ensure that no case of Ebola enters the state...
Ebola victims are most infectious right after death—which means that West African burial practices, where families touch the bodies, are spreading the disease like wildfire.
The arrival in Dallas of Thomas Duncan, the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S., illustrates the possible limitations of airport screening and the reliance on passengers to follow the honour system.
ACCRA (Reuters) - An international medical official with the U.N. Mission in Liberia has tested positive for the Ebola virus and is receiving treatment, the U.N. said on Wednesday.The official, who was
Teams in charge of burying the bodies of Ebola victims in two districts of Sierra Leone have gone on strike over the non-payment of their weekly risk allowances, leaders of the group said on Tuesday.
Laurie Garrett, CFR's senior fellow for global health, discusses the recent arrival of a traveler infected with Ebola in the United States, as well as the virus' rapid spread throughout West Africa.
The head of the top U.S. public health institute said Sunday he is confident the United States will not see an outbreak of the fast-moving Ebola virus.
The Muslim festival of Eid has been overshadowed in Sierra Leone by the spread of Ebola.
The British charity Save the Children has warned that five people in Sierra Leone are contracting the virus every hour, adding that could double by November if urgent action is not taken.
In Freetown health workers removed the body of a 17-year-old victim that had lain uncollected for four days.
The delay provoked anger among local residents: the police called repeatedly but the authorities couldn't cope… READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2014/10/05/si...
What began as a joyful reunion — refugees from African civil strife seeking to rebuild their lives in America — spiraled last week into a national health scare.
Due to the Ebola risks, hugging family and attending large gatherings are discouraged during Eid al-Adha festivities this year in West Africa.
While Muslims around the world began celebrating Eid al-Adha, the most important Islamic holiday, on Saturday, festivities in West Africa were subdued this year because of the growing Ebola outbreak. Residents in Guinea and Sierra Leone were urged not to embrace each other or go to public places to pray, according to BBC News.
Ebola's rapid spread through West Africa has been quickened by the difficulty of keeping track of the deadly disease, and filling in the huge gaps in knowledge
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