Ebola: Canada offers 1000 dose of experimental vaccine to Africa like people no

The Canadian Public Health Agency has offered to release 1000 dose of a made-in-Canada experimental Ebola virus vaccine known as VSV-EBOV which has never been tested on humans but has shown to be effective in the treatment of the disease in animals.

In a statement released yesterday August 12th, the Canadian Health Minister Rona Ambrose said the World Health Organization's Director general, Margaret Chan, has approved of the donation. 

The Minister also revealed that Canada will be donating $185,000 to the World Health Organization for the prevention and control of the deadly virus in Africa. Canada has only 1500 of the experimental vaccine and would be sending 1000 of it to Africa. Continue...

"I was pleased to offer the experimental vaccine developed by Canadian researchers as a global resource to help fight this outbreak," she said, adding that between 800 and 1,000 doses would be donated to the WHO.

The Minister in the statement added that "Canada feels this experimental vaccine is a global resource, so in response we are sharing it with the international community, while keeping a small supply in Canada."

The news comes hours after the World Health Organization said a panel of experts advised that it would be ethical to use untested drugs and vaccines in this raging epidemic, which is several times larger than any previous outbreak.

Man kills his wife just a day after she gave birth to their twins look more

A woman identified as Titilayo Kola was yestThe Nation reports

erday strangulated to death allegedly by her husband a day after she was delivered of twins,

Sources revealed that the incident took place at the couple’s apartment at No 23, Temidire Street, Ajowa area of Ado-Ekiti, the state capital.

Findings further revealed that the deceased’s husband, one Mr. Kola, popularly known in as Melomelo (how many, how many), had escaped with the twins even as he was reported to have slept in the same room with his late wife, their new twins and other four children the night before the incident. Continue...

Narrating the incident to journalists, the landlady of the deceased, who simply identified herself as Mama Aluko, said, “Titilayo was delivered of a set of twins at midnight on August 7. I was with her to help with the children and other things. Her husband, who has not been living with her for some time now, also came around, while her mum too was also around.

Strike suspension saga: NMA President, Obembe resigns

The President of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Dr. Kayode Obembe, has resigned.
His resignation followed the controversy over the strike action embarked upon by the union.
Obembe had on Thursday announced the suspension of the strike action embarked upon by the union following the appeal by the government sequel to the outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease in the country.
However, the Lagos State chapter of the union said the suspension of the strike was not agreed on by the leadership of the NMA at its meeting on Thursday.
Ohembe’s full letter, titled: Clarification, reads: “There has been a request for clarification about the two postings from the NMA secretariat on the NMA blog.
“I want to make it categorically cleared that I stand by the very letter of the document that I signed – THAT THE STRIKE WAS SUSPENDED.
“And since upon my INTEGRITY AND HONOUR, I cannot continue to drive the doctrine that ‘STRIKE CONTINUES’, I hereby tender my letter of resignation as NMA President”.

Ebola in Nigeria: Answers to key questions you have

For decades, the global community, particularly the African continent, has been battling with diseases such as malaria, syphilis, meningitis, polio, tuberculosis, tetanus, measles, whooping cough, diarrhea, pneumonia and HIV/AIDS.
While nations and international health organisations continue to formulate ways – both scientific and unorthodox – to contain these diseases, a (relatively) new infection has crept in. It is known as Ebola.
What is Ebola?
Ebola virus (formerly labelled Zaire ebolavirus, or EBOV) is a virological taxon species included in the genus Ebolavirus, family Filoviridae, members are called Filovirus. It is the most dangerous of the six species of Ebola viruses of the Ebolavirus genus which are the causative agents of the disease.

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Ebola virus lands in Saudi Arabia, bizman infected

The Ebola virus threat is going global. Within the last 24 hours, both the US and Saudi Arabia have reported possible infections of their nationals.
Saudi Arabia is the latest to report a possible Ebola Virus infection.
The country is now testing a man for suspected infection after he returned recently from a business trip to Sierra Leone, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday.

Nigeria screens 59 people for Ebola after death in Lagos

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