Nigeria: Preventing the Outbreak of Deadly Ebola Virus

It is a terrifying development that Nigeria is at risk of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease epidemic.

The virus is "out of control" and spreading rapidly across the West -African coast like a wild harmattan fire with the World Health Organisation (WHO) recording 44 new infections and 21 deaths in just two days. The outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in West -Africa is the worst on record with over 500 deaths reported to date. With several cases of Ebola reported in Mali, Gambia, Ghana and Sierra Leone, West Africa is witnessing the most challenging outbreak since the disease was discovered 38 years ago. WHO recently declared that it expects the deadly virus' spread to continue for several more months in West Africa and now that it has spread to three neighbouring countries, the crisis appears far from being over.

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