CANADIANS URGED TO GET OUT OF WEST AFRICA BECAUSE OF EBOLA
Canadians living in the three west African countries hardest hit by the Ebola virus are being advised by Health Canada to leave while there are still commercial flights available. Health Minister Rona...
View ArticleDALLAS HEALTH CARE WORKER TESTS POSITIVE FOR EBOLA
A health care worker in Dallas, Texas has tested positive for Ebola in preliminary testing. Confirmation testing will be done at the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. If...
View ArticleDOCTORS DOUBT BELLEVILLE PATIENT HAS EBOLA
A hospital in Belleville is treating a patient who recently returned to Canada from Sierra Leone. Doctors say the patient works for the military and began presenting symptoms that could indicate Ebola....
View ArticleTHIRD EBOLA PATIENT IN TEXAS; CANADA REMAINS EBOLA FREE
The Texas health department says a second health-care worker in Dallas has tested positive for Ebola. The unidentified worker was part of the team that treated Thomas Duncan, the first Ebola victim in...
View ArticleCDC TRIES TO STOP FURTHER SPREAD OF EBOLA AFTER INFECTED NURSE FLIES FROM...
An apology has been made by a Dallas hospital spokesperson for blunders in handling Ebola. Doctor Daniel Varga at Texas Presbyterian Health Dallas Hospital says the case of Thomas Duncan was...
View ArticleCDC DIRECTOR INSISTS EBOLA POSES NO MAJOR U.S. HEALTH RISK DESPITE CASES OF...
U.S. lawmakers in Washington D.C. have blasted the Obama administration’s handling of Ebola on American soil. Republican Timothy Murphy warned yesterday that public trust is waning after two Dallas...
View ArticleONTARIO’S HEALTH MINISTER ANNOUNCES ENHANCED PREPAREDNESS FOR EBOLA
Enhanced measures to prepare for a possible Ebola case in this province have been outlined this morning by Ontario’s Health Minister. “I want to assure all Ontarians,” Dr. Eric Hoskins explained, “that...
View ArticleCANADA SENDING EXPERIMENTAL EBOLA VACCINE TO WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
The Canadian government begins shipping an experimental Ebola vaccine tomorrow to the World Health Organization. As a safety precaution, 800 vials of the vaccine will be sent to the UN’s Public...
View ArticleONTARIO CONTRIBUTES TO FIGHT AGAINST EBOLA
The Ontario Government has announced funding to fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Premier Kathleen Wynne says her government will contribute three million dollars to the international effort to...
View ArticleCANADA CRITICIZED FOR WEST AFRICAN VISA BAN
There`s heavy criticism aimed at the Harper governemnt for preventing people from three West African countries battling the Ebola virus from entering Canada. The ban on visas applies to Liberia, Sierra...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ANOTHER BAND AID – THIS TIME TO HELP FIGHT EBOLA
Saying he’d been inspired by the bravery of volunteer medical staff fighting the deadly virus in West Africa, Bob Geldof says the single ”Do They Know It’s Christmas,” will be re-recorded. The man...
View ArticleCANADIAN MILITARY HEALTH UNIT TO BATTLE EBOLA IN WEST AFRICA
Canada is sending a military health unit to fight Ebola in west Africa. The Canadian Armed Forces 45-member medical contingent left CFB Trenton early Saturday to begin training in the United Kingdom....
View ArticleClik here to view.
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PHOTOJOURNALIST MICHEL DU CILLE DEAD
A Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist has died in Africa. Michel du Cille was on assignment in Liberia for the Washington Post where he was capturing the Ebola crisis on film. He collapsed while...
View ArticleTWO-YEAR-OLD BOY MAY BE EBOLA EPIDEMIC’S FIRST VICTIM
Researchers believe they have discovered how west Africa’s Ebola epidemic started. They think it began with a 2-year-old boy playing in a hollowed out tree that had contained infected bats. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ONTARIO FACES POTENIAL EBOLA SCARE
Two people are under investigation for the Ebola virus in London Ontario. The two have been placed in isolation at Victoria Hospital in London with London”s Health Sciences Centre reporting the...
View ArticleTESTS ARE NEGATIVE ON SUSPECTED EBOLA CASE AT SUNNYBROOK
Doctors at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto say we don’t have our first case of Ebola here in Canada. They say tests done on a person at Sunnybrook’s Ebola response centre have come back...
View Article