By KEMO CHAM Scientists in Sierra Leone have found fruit-eating bats infected with the deadly Marburg virus, the health ministry said Thursday. This is the first instance that the haemorrhagic fever...
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New Ebola virus strain found in Sierra Leone
By KEMO CHAM Researchers in Sierra Leone have found a new strain of the Ebola virus, the government said on Thursday. The virus was discovered in bats in northern Bombali region by scientists in a...
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Ebola-hit countries get public health emergency coordination centers
IN SUMMARY The Emergency Operations Centres will serve as central coordination offices in the respective countries for response to an Ebola emergency or any other public health threat. In order to...
How Ebola has turned lives upside down in Sierra Leone
By KEMO CHAM in Freetown IN SUMMARY KEMO CHAM, our Sierra Leonean correspondent, writes about the changes in the daily life of his home country and how he fell sick and feared for the worst — that he...
DR Congo + 5 more
Tanzania, 6 others lined up for $5.3m cassava fund
By LEONARD MAGOMBA Tanzania is among seven cassava growing countries in Africa set to benefit from $5.3 million funding from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture. Under the project...