Oxfam: $1.9B in Ebola aid not delivered by donors
January 31, 2016 - 6:55am
Activists say international donors have failed to deliver funds promised to help West African countries recover from the Ebola epidemic that killed more than 11,000 people.
Health And Family
Government resumes deployment to Guinea
By
Mayen Jaymalin
| January 24, 2016 - 9:00am
The government resumed the deployment of workers to Guinea over a year after imposing a deployment ban on the West African country, an official said yesterday.
Metro
Guinea declared free of Ebola, step to end spread of disease
December 29, 2015 - 4:03pm
Guinea was declared Ebola-free on yesterday, a huge step in the fight against the world's largest Ebola epidemic.
World
Health authorities: 3 new Ebola cases in Liberia
By
Jonathan Paye-Layleh
| November 21, 2015 - 11:07am
Three new Ebola cases have been confirmed in Liberia, a health official said Friday, more than two months after the West African nation was declared Ebola-free for a second time.
World
Defying logic
By
Korina Sanchez
| November 12, 2015 - 9:00am
Some things are just plain hard to understand or comprehend.
Freeman Opinion
UN: 2 new Ebola cases in Guinea show virus still spreading
October 16, 2015 - 10:21am
The World Health Organization says there were two new cases of Ebola in Guinea this week, ending two consecutive weeks in...
Health And Family
UN Ebola response now planned to continue into 2016
By
Krista Larson
| September 23, 2015 - 2:38pm
The United Nations is now planning for its Ebola response to last into mid-2016, suggesting the battle against the virus that has killed more than 11,000 people won't be over by year-end, according to a report ...
World
DENR to suspend issuance of transport permits for monkeys
September 12, 2015 - 10:00am
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) will suspend tomorrow the capture and transport of monkeys from the wild pending an investigation on how several captive monkeys in Mindoro were infected...
Headlines
Public urged: To avoid Ebola, don’t keep exotic animals
By
Evelyn Macairan
| September 12, 2015 - 10:00am
To lessen chances of getting infected by the Ebola Reston Virus, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) urged the public to refrain from keeping exotic animals as pets.
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2 Philippine nurses with MERS in Saudi out of ICU
By
Pia Lee-Brago
| September 11, 2015 - 10:00am
Two Filipino nurses who acquired Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-Corona Virus (MERS-CoV) are out of the intensive care unit of a hospital in Saudi Arabia, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said yesterday...
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