June 30, 2026
  • People in Action
  • Bookspace
  • De-Escalation
  • Flashback
  • World From Africa
  • Spectacle
  • Governance
  • People in Action
  • Bookspace
  • De-Escalation
  • Flashback
  • World From Africa
  • Spectacle
  • Governance
Intervention Intervention
  • People in Action
  • Bookspace
  • De-Escalation
  • Flashback
  • World From Africa
  • Spectacle
  • Governance
Menu
  • People in Action
  • Bookspace
  • De-Escalation
  • Flashback
  • World From Africa
  • Spectacle
  • Governance
loading...
Storylines
  • The Genealogy That Does Not Inherit A Civilisational Verdict on Ochonu’s Boko Haram
  • Beyond the Stereotype: How Dependency Theory Remains Relevant
  • IOLDCs Appoints Prof Kwaja As Senior Advisor for Africa
  • What a Day @ Veritas University, Abuja!
  • New Edition of Walter Rodney’s ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa’ Coming
  • Kano Emirate Turbans ‘Garkuwan Kano’, A B Mahmoud (SAN)
  • Controversy Thickens Over ‘Boghossian Report’ on the Humanities And Social Sciences in the US
  • Can NPSA Be That Singularity for Nigeria?
  • Immigrants Didn’t Create Our Economic Crisis – South African Labour Unions
  • Africa Needs a Radical Plan to Tackle 15m Youth Job Crisis
Home Ebola

Disease X and Africa: The Creation of Disease Narratives

Posted By: adminon: June 17, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Bushmeat, CHINA, COVID-19, Disease X, Ebola, RCCE, WHONo CommentsViews:
Disease X and Africa: The Creation of Disease Narratives

By Catherine Grant, (Research Officer, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK) & Kelley Sams (Assistant Professor, University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine)... Read more

Share 0
Tweet
Share 0

University of Sydney Virologist Wins Big With Pioneering Covid-19 Research

Posted By: adminon: November 04, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: Ebola, Hepatitis C, HIV, Mark Scott, Prime Minister Morrison, SARS, STEM Teaching, University of SydneyNo CommentsViews:
University of Sydney Virologist Wins Big With Pioneering Covid-19 Research

Originally titled “Major award for Australian Covid pioneer”, this November 3rd, 2021 story has been lifted from Times Higher Education where the rider goes as follows: Fifty-two minutes tha... Read more

Share 0
Tweet
Share 0

Ebola Tricks the World, More Dangerous Than Initial Appearance?

Posted By: adminon: March 13, 2021In: FlashbackTags: Ebola, Equatorial Africa, MSF, UNICEF, WHONo CommentsViews:
Ebola Tricks the World, More Dangerous Than Initial Appearance?

It is emerging that Ebola virus might have capacity to hibernate and return for a second round of infection. According to the New York Times, Scientists seem to conclude that someone who was... Read more

Share 0
Tweet
Share 0

Is An African Contingency Plan on COVID-19 Coming?

Posted By: adminon: April 03, 2020In: World From AfricaTags: Bill Gates, Ebola, M O Ibrahim, Pharmacognosy, WHONo CommentsViews:
Is An African Contingency Plan on COVID-19 Coming?

It is now trite to say the world is under siege. But the siege cannot last forever. A multiplicity of efforts are going in too many places and levels that the world will prevail. How soon th... Read more

Share 0
Tweet
Share 0

Is Chloroquine a Done Deal Or Politics of Global Primacy?

Posted By: adminon: March 20, 2020In: FlashbackTags: Anthony Fauci, CHINA, Chloroquine, Ebola, NIGERIA, North Africa, Southern AfricaNo CommentsViews:
Is Chloroquine a Done Deal Or Politics of Global Primacy?

Bringing Coronavirus under control is as medical as it is global power politics. That makes it interesting that it is Donald Trump who has been heavily criticised for his handling of the pan... Read more

Share 0
Tweet
Share 0

United States Trigger Global Health Alarm Over Closure of Key Health Intelligence Facility

Posted By: adminon: October 25, 2019In: FlashbackTags: AIDS, Dennis Carrol, Ebola, NYT, Predict, SARS, USAIDNo CommentsViews:
United States Trigger Global Health Alarm Over Closure of Key Health Intelligence Facility

Global health governance practitioners are imagining alarms ringing in that arena following the decision of the United States Government to close down a global health surveillance facility.... Read more

Share 0
Tweet
Share 0

Don’t Panic Over Ebola, Nigerian Govt Reinforces Alert to Citizens

Posted By: adminon: May 16, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: CSM, DRC, Ebola, Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, Prof Isaac AdewoleNo CommentsViews:
Don’t Panic Over Ebola, Nigerian Govt Reinforces Alert to Citizens

Fearful of the public being overwhelmed by panic, the government says the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control is not only on ground but fully equipped to battle Ebola in tandem with the slog... Read more

Share 0
Tweet
Share 0

Is Debt Moratorium on the Table in the Turbulence of Negotiating Buhari’s Absence?

Posted By: adminon: May 15, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: Ahmed Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, Ebola, Gen Olusegun Obasanjo, Northern Elders, Sheikh Ahmad GumiNo CommentsViews:
Is Debt Moratorium on the Table in the Turbulence of Negotiating Buhari’s Absence?

President Muhammadu Buhari’s ill-health and the way forward is still a subject of subsisting and emergent controversies in spite of what appears a steady preparation of the minds of the peop... Read more

Share 0
Tweet
Share 0

3 Lessons from Current CSM Outbreak in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: April 05, 2017In: FlashbackTags: Bill Gates, Celebro-spinal Meningitis-CSM, Dr Ameyo Adadevoh, Ebola, Global Health Intelligence, MSF, SARSNo CommentsViews:
3 Lessons from Current CSM Outbreak in Nigeria

It must be a summoning to reflexivity that in the first week of April 2017, an outbreak of cerebro-spinal meningitis, (CSM) has claimed no less than 400 victims in Nigeria even though the fi... Read more

Share 0
Tweet
Share 0

Who Succeeds Margaret Chan as WHO Leader? Asks Lyndal Rowlands

Posted By: adminon: October 30, 2016In: FlashbackTags: AIDS/HIV, CHINA, Dr David Nabarro, Dr Flavia Bustreo, Dr Miklós Szócska, Dr Sania Nishtar, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Ebola, Esperanza Martinez, Ethiopia, France, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Hungary, ICRC, IPS, Italy, Lyndal Rowlands, Margaret Chan, Norway, Pakistan, Professor Philippe Douste-Blazy, Sierra Leone, Susannah Sirkin, Syria, tuberculosis, UN, WHO, ZikaNo CommentsViews:
Who Succeeds Margaret Chan as WHO Leader? Asks Lyndal Rowlands

Written and published originally by Inter Press Service News Agency, (IPS) under the title “Who Should Lead the WHO Next?”, the author pries into the question of successor of Dr Margaret Cha... Read more

Share 0
Tweet
Share 0
12

Recent Posts

The Genealogy That Does Not Inherit A Civilisational Verdict on Ochonu’s Boko Haram
The Genealogy That Does Not Inherit A Civilisational Verdict on Ochonu’s Boko Haram

The Genealogy That Does Not Inherit A Civilisational Verdict on Ochonu’s Boko Haram

June 29, 2026
Beyond the Stereotype: How Dependency Theory Remains Relevant
Beyond the Stereotype: How Dependency Theory Remains Relevant

Beyond the Stereotype: How Dependency Theory Remains Relevant

June 28, 2026
IOLDCs Appoints Prof Kwaja As Senior Advisor for Africa
IOLDCs Appoints Prof Kwaja As Senior Advisor for Africa

IOLDCs Appoints Prof Kwaja As Senior Advisor for Africa

June 28, 2026
What a Day @ Veritas University, Abuja!
What a Day @ Veritas University, Abuja!

What a Day @ Veritas University, Abuja!

June 28, 2026
New Edition of Walter Rodney's 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa' Coming
New Edition of Walter Rodney's 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa' Coming

New Edition of Walter Rodney’s ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa’ Coming

June 24, 2026

Intervention Timeline

My Tweets

Posts In Pictures

  • Diplomats fight Newspapers for Stereotyping Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as “This grandmother will head the WTO”
  • Unpacking the ‘Murder in the Bedroom’ Turn in Domestic Violence
  • Combating Eurocentrism, Reinscribing Imperialist Cartography in African Scholarship
  • Intervention Educational Opportunities Notice Board (3D) - PhD Programmes
  • Updated: Tribute to Haja Kadie Bangura (1942-1989)
  • Wulu, Wulu & Idoma Iconography in Bongos Ikwue’s Music
  • The World Awaits Mary Robinson’s Verdict on Akinwumi Adesina Amidst Claims of ‘Transparent Imperialism’
  • Africa: The Economist At It Again?
  • Jiddari Ward Attack in Maiduguri Turns Fiasco for Boko Haram
  • The World in the Shadow of Davos: Taking Canada Seriously
  • Why Buhari is Implicated in Insecurity in Nigeria – Prof. Shadrack Best
  • COVID-19 As a Space of Corrosive Humour in Nigeria

Facebook Timeline

Facebook Timeline

Info

Office Address: Suite 4, Abuja Shopping Complex, Area 3, Garki-Abuja

Phone:
+2348133033042

(c) 2017-19 Intervention.ng

  • People in Action
  • Bookspace
  • De-Escalation
  • Flashback
  • World From Africa
  • Spectacle
  • Governance
Desktop Version Mobile Version