The Ministry of Health advises people to limit travel to Ebola-affected areas in Africa as the WHO warns of the risk of cross-border spread of the Bundibugyo strain.
The Ministry of Health has just issued new guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of Ebola virus disease, replacing the old regulations that had been in effect since 2014.
The Ministry of Health has just issued an urgent document requesting medical facilities and provincial/city health departments to proactively prevent and control Ebola virus disease in light of the risk of the disease spreading.
The Ministry of Health assesses the risk of Ebola entering Vietnam as low, but localities need to strengthen surveillance and proactively implement disease prevention measures.
The World Health Organization has declared that the Ebola virus outbreak in Congo, which has killed more than 700 people and continues to spread, does not constitute a global health emergency.
The Nigerian government says at least 17 people have died from a mysterious illness that broke out earlier this week in the town of Ode-Irele, in southeastern Ondo State.
(VTC News) - Starting on October 24th, North Korea closed its borders, prohibiting any tourists from entering due to concerns about the spread of the Ebola virus.
Two Ebola patients being treated in Liberia have been discharged from the hospital after their test results showed a negative response to the Ebola virus.
(VTC News) - On August 24, the BBC reported that a plane carrying a British nurse working in West Africa who was infected with the Ebola virus had landed in London.
(VTC News) - In this village, the most noticeable thing now is the numbers, each house having a number, representing the number of lives that death claimed when Ebola swept through the village.
(VTC News) - German media reported that the country has just discovered a woman with symptoms of Ebola virus infection after she fainted and then developed a high fever.
(VTC News) - Twenty-four hours have passed, and medical staff in the Libyan capital Monrovia are still searching for the whereabouts of 17 Ebola patients who escaped on the night of August 16th.
(VTC News) - They sought out corpses that had been abandoned for several days, lifted them up despite the fluids oozing out everywhere, and transported them to burial sites according to proper medical safety procedures.
(VTC News) - Nigerian Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu announced to the press on the evening of August 16th that one patient infected with the Ebola virus in Nigeria had been discharged from the hospital after recovering.
On August 13, Guinea's President Alpha Conde declared the Ebola outbreak, which has claimed the lives of 377 people in the West African nation, a "health emergency."
(VTC News) - The Department of Preventive Medicine (Ministry of Health) stated that the detection of just one case testing positive for the Ebola virus is considered an outbreak.
(VTC News) - To proactively prevent Ebola, special attention should be paid to the signs and symptoms of the disease for early detection, isolation, and treatment.
(VTC News) - The Philippine health minister said that seven Philippine workers showed symptoms of Ebola virus infection after returning from Sierra Leone.