The Ebola outbreak in Congo has spread from the countryside into the city, prompting fears that the disease will be increasingly difficult to control. Congo’s health minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga…
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Congo receives first doses of Ebola vaccine amid outbreak
Emeka Ejere| The first batch of 4,000 experimental Ebola vaccines to combat an outbreak suspected of killing 23 people arrived in Congo’s capital Kinshasa on Wednesday. The Health Ministry said…
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FG writes US, UK over ‘hacking’ of Buhari’s health records- Report
A committee probing the alleged hack of President Muhammadu Buhari’s health records in the build-up to the 2015 elections has written the US and UK to demand information. The federal…
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Chidi Samuel| The World Health Organisation (WHO) has classified Nigeria and other countries in the African region to be at moderate risk of spread following the outbreak of the deadly…
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Codeine: NAFDAC reopens three closed pharmaceutical companies
Ebun Francis | The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Saturday reopened the three pharmaceutical companies that were implicated in the illegal manufacture and distribution…
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