Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variations. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type, now trials for another are underway ...

Nigeria needs to step up disease prevention and control and decentralise disease surveillance as the US pulls donor funding.

UNAIDS calls for continuation of essential HIV servicesIn a bid to prevent a recurrence of the deadly Ebola virus, which was brought into Nigeria in 2014 by a Liberian national, the federal government ...

Nigerians have been advised to avoid all but essential trips to Uganda and other countries with confirmed Ebola Virus Disease ...

The Marburg virus, a close relative of Ebola, is a deadly disease that causes haemorrhaging and has a high mortality rate. This virus has recently resurfaced in Tanzania, infecting nine people and ...

ABUJA, Jan 22 (Reuters) - The United Nations will this week appeal for $910 million to help tackle a humanitarian crisis in northeastern Nigeria, which has been in the grip of an Islamist ...

THE United Nations (UN) has set plans to secure $910 million this week to help tackle a humanitarian crisis in northeastern Nigeria. Reuters revealed this in a report on Wednesday, January 22, hinting ...

Marburg belongs to the same family of illnesses as Ebola and can cause death in up to 88% of cases. President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on Monday that at least one person in the northwest of the ...

Tanzania’s president has confirmed an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus disease (MVD), a highly infectious virus like Ebola that can be fatal in up to 88 per cent of cases without treatment.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Firefighters extinguish fire from a tanker that exploded in Suleja, Nigeria, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. (AP ...

INEC reduced political parties in Nigeria from 92 to 19 in 2020. However, some of the 74 deregistered parties are still active, and new ones are still sprouting. The logos of political parties in ...