Hogeschool Gent’s three student trainees assigned in the Gambian capital Banjul are returning to Belgium for fear of the ebola virus in West Africa. Last week, five students from the West Flemish Catholic College Vives returned from Guinea. The World Health Organization (WHO) calls the situation in West Africa ‘alarming’. The worrying news about the Ebola virus put Flemish schools with students in the affected countries to be cautious. No Flemish student currently residing in the border area of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia where the disease has already made more than a hundred deaths.