Potchefstroom - A 72-year-old man has been placed under quarantine for haemorrhagic fever, the North West Department of Health said on Thursday. According to departmental spokesperson, Tebogo Lekgethwane, the man came to the Potchefstroom Hospital on Wednesday complaining of a fever, weakness and a cough.…
Sporadic cases of Ebola virus disease in Europe are unavoidable. This is due to travel between Europe and affected countries. However, the risk of spread of Ebola in Europe is avoidable and extremely low. European countries are among the best prepared in the world to…
Spanish authorities notified WHO under the International Health Regulations (IHR) last night that a Spanish nurse working in Spain has been diagnosed with Ebola virus disease (EVD). The health care worker was treating an individual who had been infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone and…
Following recent media reports, the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) seeks to clarify that Ebola is not an airborne disease. At this point in time we have no evidence and do not anticipate that the Ebola virus is mutating to become airborne. However,…
On 30 September 2014, the National IHR Focal Point for Austria notified WHO via the European Commission’s Early Warning and Response System (EWRS) of a laboratory confirmed case of Middle-East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection diagnosed in Vienna, Austria. This is the first MERS-CoV case…
On 30 September 2014, the Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) was informed of the first confirmed imported case of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the United States. The case is an adult with recent travel history to West Africa who developed…
Address to emergency session of the UN Security Council: Peace and security in Africa (Ebola) New York, New York, USA, 18 September 2014 Distinguished members of the Security Council, Mr Secretary General, Dr Nabarro. Many of the governments you represent have been helping, with treatment…
WHO welcomes the extensive Ebola support from the United States of America GENEVA: 16 September 2014 -- WHO welcomes the contribution from the Government of the United States of America to significantly build upon their previous Ebola response in West Africa. The new commitment provides…
GENEVA - WHO welcomes the commitment from the Government of the People's Republic of China to dispatch a mobile laboratory team to Sierra Leone to enhance the laboratory testing capacity for Ebola virus disease (EVD) in the country. The contribution comes in response to WHO's…
WHO welcomes the commitment from the Government of Cuba to provide 165 health professionals to support Ebola care in West Africa. The newly announced support includes physicians, nurses, epidemiologists, specialists in infection control, intensive care specialists and social mobilization officers, and will be concentrated in…