United States President Barack Obama has called on other nations of the world to help in the fight against the Ebola Virus Disease, which has the tendency to “inflict horrific suffering and destabilise economies.”
Obama made the call when he appeared on Wednesday before the United Nations General Assembly, where he made a broad appeal for other nations to follow America’s lead in tackling mounting security and health crises around the globe. Continue..
The US President said there must be a “broader effort to stop a disease that could kill hundreds of thousands, inflict horrific suffering, destabilise economies, and move rapidly across borders” even as the US was sending medical workers and the military to build treatment centres in Africa
Meanwhile, the World Health Organisation has declared Nigeria, alongside Senegal, free of the deadly viral disease after it has claimed the lives of seven persons in the country.
As the WHO Ebola Response Team published dire predictions of the West African outbreak in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, reported that Nigeria was now completely free of active Ebola cases and had also released the final victim contacts from surveillance.
While preparing for the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York, USA, the minister said, “Presently, there is no single case of Ebola virus disease in Nigeria – none.
“No cases are under treatment, no suspected cases. There are no contacts in Lagos that are still under surveillance, having completed a minimum of 21 days of observation.”
Other issues that were addressed by the US President included the intrusion of Russia in Ukraine, Iran’s nuclear program, global poverty, climate change and terrorism.
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