Tag: Ebola
UK to help Uganda manage Ebola outbreak
HE Kate Airey OBE, British High Commissioner to Uganda
The British High Commission in Kampala has announced...
New case halts Ebola-free celebrations
Fifty people have been placed in quarantine in northern Sierra Leone after the death of a middle-aged woman from the Ebola virus, in a...
Mass quarantines end as new Ebola cases hit zero
At the end of the first week in which no new Ebola cases have been reported within its borders since last year’s mass outbreak,...
Ebola: as virus resurfaces in Liberia, UNICEF
In a speedy response to Liberia's first confirmed cases of Ebola in more than three months, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has begun...
Sam-Sumana in self-imposed Ebola quarantine
Sierra Leone's Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana has placed himself in a 21-day quarantine after one of his bodyguards died of Ebola amid a worrying...
More volunteers sent to fight Ebola
A further 25 NHS staff from across the UK are deploying to Sierra Leone to join Britain’s fight against Ebola, International Development Secretary Justine...
Ebola: does anyone really know?
As Will Pooley, the British nurse who is returning to Sierra Leone after surviving the Ebola virus he contracted there, busies himself answering repeated...
Union claims nurses inadequately protected as Ebola strikes again
A second Texas health worker has tested positive for Ebola and has been placed in isolation as African Voice went to press, after a...
No room at the inn for Sierra Leone student
As the worrisome news of the fatal Ebola virus continues to spread, with airports screenings passengers from infected countries for the virus, and the...
School cancels boy’s placement amid Ebola hysteria
A school has taken the step of cancelling the visit of a British charity worker and her son because of fears by parents that...
