Nigeria - Ebola: 20 cases, 8 fatalities (WHO Ebola Roadmap Response, September 24, 2014)

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Re: Nigeria - Ebola: 13 cases, 2 fatalities as of August 6, 2014 (WHO)

Pandemonium at Lagos Airport as passenger slumps, dies

A Nigerian passenger who was about boarding an Arik Air flight back to Accra, Ghana slumped and died yesterday moments after undergoing a screening to assertain his Ebola virus status.

The incident Daily Sun gathered occurred at the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Ikeja, Lagos. But the result later indicated he was Ebola negative.

The death of the passenger whose name was given as Mr. Akunne Osei, created panic among other passengers and health care workers that another Ebola virus victim had died at the airport and might have infected the few persons that had come in contact with him.

The death of this Nigerian passenger caused a very serious pandemonium at the airport as people ran for their lives leaving the corpse to lie unattended to for several hours for fear that the deceased would have been killed by Ebola virus.

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Re: Nigeria - Ebola: 13 cases, 2 fatalities as of August 6, 2014 (WHO)

<header> Treat Severe Malaria As Ebola, FCT PHCDB Tells Health Workers

By Igho Oyoyo
? Aug 11, 2014 | 1 Comment </header> The executive secretary of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Primary Health Care Development Board (PHCDB), Dr Rilwan Mohammed, has adviced health workers in the six area council of Abuja, especially those at the rural communities to treat all cases of severe malaria as Ebola virus Disease (EVD).
Speaking during a training and sensitisation programme for health workers in the FCT, Mohammed urged health personnel to treat patients with severe malaria; that is vomiting or has diarrhea and is bleeding, as possible EVC carriers and, as such, should protect themselves before attending to such patients until it is proven otherwise.
The PHCDB boss said that there are 1712 suspected cases of Ebola virus worldwide, while there are 922 people infected presently and there are seven confirmed cases in Nigeria.
He said, ?the FCTA is prepared to fight the outbreak of the virus, which is why we are organisi....http://leadership.ng/news/380667/tre...health-workers

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Re: Nigeria - Ebola: 13 cases, 2 fatalities as of August 6, 2014 (WHO)

Another Ebola Victim: Newlywed Nurse Tests Positive to the Virus in Lagos

<a href="http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/another-ebola-victim-newlywed-nurse-tests-positive-to-the-virus-in-lagos.87858/"><abbr title="Aug 11, 2014 at 2:07 PM" class="DateTime" data-time="1407762435" data-diff="3992" data-datestring="Aug 11, 2014" data-timestring="2:07 PM">Today at 2:07 PM</abbr>.
The Ebola virus has Nigeria panic-stricken, as shown by the salt overdose recorded over the weekend. To fuel the fear, another nurse in Lagos has tested positive for the virus.

This is happening days after a nurse who had contact with the first victim, Patrick Sawyer, has died from the virus.

According to reports, this nurse is a newlywed and was also among the experts who came in contact with Patrick Sawyer.

Nine people have so far been infected, bringing the number of cases in Nigeria to ten.

Onyebuchi Chukwu, Minister of Health, has confirmed that her husband was among the 177 people currently placed under surveillance.

Two people have died from the virus so far: the Liberian, Patrick Sawyer, and the first Nigerian nurse.http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/thre...n-lagos.87858/

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Re: Ebola: 13 cases, 2 fatalities as of August 6, 2014 (WHO)

A further 2 people in Lagos have tested positive for Ebola. Over 130 others are being monitored for symptoms, including 48 who were on the flight with the Ebola case on 20 July.

https://www.internationalsos.com/ebola/index.cfm?content_id=407&language_id=ENG

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Re: Ebola: 13 cases, 2 fatalities as of August 6, 2014 (WHO)

Nigeria Struggles to Cope With Ebola Outbreak

By SABRINA TAVERNISEAUG. 10, 2014
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The story of Mr. Sawyer, who was reportedly aware that he was sick when he left Liberia, demonstrates just how difficult containing the disease will be in the modern age of rapid travel and growing urbanization.
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Almost all of the suspected Ebola cases involve people who had direct contact with Mr. Sawyer ? either in the airport where he was helped into a car or in the hospital where he was treated, the First Consultant Medical Center.

Newspapers in Liberia and Nigeria were brimming with accounts of the strange tale of Mr. Sawyer?s sickness, which began in Liberia, where the disease is exploding.

According to a report in The National Chronicle, a Liberian newspaper, Mr. Sawyer?s sister, who died of Ebola in early July, had come to a hospital bleeding, but when doctors and nurses tried to put her in isolation, Mr. Sawyer refused to allow it, demanding that she be given a private ward. He undressed her, put her into a wheelchair and offered the hospital workers cash, the paper said.

And in an account in The New Dawn, a Liberian newspaper, which cited footage from a security camera in the airport in Monrovia, Mr. Sawyer was behaving strangely as he waited for his flight out of Liberia, sitting alone, avoiding physical contact with people ? including an immigration agent who tried to shake his hand ? and even lying flat on his stomach on the floor of a corridor of the airport.

The episode prompted the president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, to publicly apologize to Nigeria about Mr. Sawyer, who she said had sneaked out of Liberia, where he was being tracked as a potential Ebola case, according to The Daily Independent, a Nigerian newspaper.

The number of suspected cases has continued to tick up slowly. Nigeria?s state oil company announced on Friday that it had closed its clinic in Lagos after a patient suspected of having Ebola was admitted there. The patient had visited the First Consultant Medical Center, which has since been closed.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/11/world/africa/ebola-in-nigeria.html?_r=0

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Re: Nigeria - Ebola: 13 cases, 2 fatalities as of August 6, 2014 (WHO)

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Ebola virus disease, West Africa ? update 8 August 2014
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Disease update

New cases and deaths attributable to EVD continue to be reported by the Ministries of Health in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. Between 5 and 6 August 2014, 68 new cases (laboratory-confirmed, probable, and suspect cases) of EVD and 29 deaths were reported from the four countries as follows: Guinea, 0 new cases and 4 deaths; Liberia, 38 new cases and 12 deaths; Nigeria, 4 new cases and 1 death; and Sierra Leone, 26 new cases and 12 deaths.

As of 6 August 2014, the cumulative number of cases attributed to EVD in the four countries stands at 1 779, including 961 deaths. The distribution and classification of the cases are as follows: Guinea, 495 cases (355 confirmed, 133 probable, and 7 suspected), including 367 deaths; Liberia, 554 cases (148 confirmed, 274 probable, and 132 suspected), including 294 deaths; Nigeria, 13 cases (0 confirmed, 7 probable, and 6 suspected), including 2 deaths; and Sierra Leone, 717 cases (631 confirmed, 38 probable, and 48 suspected), including 298 deaths.
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Re: Nigeria - Ebola: 9 cases, 2 fatalities

Source: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/0...0QE4LR20140808


Nigerian oil firm shuts clinic after suspected Ebola case admitted
ABUJA Fri Aug 8, 2014 5:06pm BST

Aug 8 (Reuters) - Nigeria's state oil company NNPC said on Friday it had shut down its own clinic in Lagos' commercial district of Victoria Island, after a suspected Ebola case was admitted there.

The patient who arrived there sick had previously visited the First Consultant Medical Centre, also now shut, where the country's first case of Ebola was recorded...

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Re: Nigeria - Ebola: 9 cases, 2 fatalities

Source: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/...strike/185600/


Ebola: NMA Suspends Strike
07 Aug 2014
By Paul Obi

There were indications Wednesday night that the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has suspended the nationwide strike embarked upon last month owning to the need to intervene and assist in curtailing the spread of Ebola virus.

The NMA had late Wednesday evening called for an emergency meeting to deliberate on the possibility of calling off the strike so as to allow medical doctors return to their duty post to give a helping hand in the fight to prevent further cases of Ebola...

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Nigeria declares Ebola outbreak national emergency

The Nigerian government on Wednesday described the Ebola outbreak in the country as a national emergency.

Minister of Health Onyebuchi Chukwu said this at an emergency meeting convened by the House of Representatives Committee on Health over the Ebola outbreak in Abuja, the nation's capital city.

He said out of six Nigerians diagnosed with Ebola virus, one had died on Tuesday, adding that the other five patients were receiving treatment.

The minister said everyone in the world now was at risk, adding that the experience of Nigeria had opened the eyes of the world to the reality of Ebola.
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http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2014-08/07/content_33165326.htm

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Nigeria Rushes to Get Isolation Tents for Ebola

LAGOS, Nigeria ? Aug 6, 2014, 4:11 PM ET
By MARAM MAZAN and KRISTA LARSON Associated Press

Nigerian authorities rushed to obtain isolation tents Wednesday in anticipation of more Ebola infections as they disclosed five more cases of the virus and a death in Africa's most populous nation, where officials were racing to keep the gruesome disease confined to a small group of patients.

The five new Nigerian cases were all in Lagos, a megacity of 21 million people in a country already beset with poor health care infrastructure and widespread corruption, and all five were reported to have had direct contact with one infected man.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/nigeria-rushes-isolation-tents-ebola-24870168

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Ebola: Lagos begins search for 27 secondary contacts

August 6, 2014 The Lagos State Government has commenced an intensive search for 27 secondary contacts, who might have had contacts with doctors, nurses and health workers, who attended to the late Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, at a Lagos private hospital.
Sawyer, who was infected with the deadly Ebola virus in his native Liberia, died in the Obalende, Lagos-based hospital penultimate Friday, four days after he was admitted to the hospital.
The 40-year-old Sawyer was in Nigeria to attend a conference in Calabar, Cross River State.
Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, who spoke in Lagos on Wednesday, said the government was also planning a life insurance cover for doctors and other health professionals, who volunteered to work with experts monitoring and testing suspected cases of the Ebola Virus Disease.
Idris, who spoke at a press briefing, said the government was presently facing a shortage of experts, doctors and health workers needed to attend to those that had been infected and those that were going to be isolated for monitoring.
He said, ?We will provide a life insurance for any doctor, nurse and other experts that want to work with isolated patients. We need more hands, because we have moved from the stage of primary contacts to secondary contacts.
?We are tracing all the people that had contact, not just with (the late) Sawyer, but those that had contacts with the health workers and others that have died.
?We have identified 27 secondary contacts already, we tracing the addresses of others.
?It is a tedious task, because we will also be taking their blood samples for testing and we will be monitoring them.
?We are appealing to the doctors on strike to resume work and set aside their grievances. No doubt, this situation is a dire emergency and our health professionals must recognise that.
?It will be morally unjustifiable for us to call for help from the international community if our own experts and doctors are not working.
?The bottom line is that we cannot provide the requisite expertise needed to manage these confirmed and probable cases.?

Idris said it would also be evacuating tuberculosis patients at the Infectious Diseases Hospital in Yaba, Lagos, to another hospital to accommodate more suspected and isolated cases.
The commissioner said, ?The TB patients at Mainland Hospital were protesting this morning but we appealed to them, that if they stay there they might be exposed and get infected.
?If we need to evacuate any hospital to ensure that we contain this disease, we will do it. If we have to take suspected cases to LASUTH, we will do it. If we need to take decisions that will be inconvenient for some people but beneficial to the larger population, we will do it. Ebola is a highly infectious disease. We will do it to contain it.?http://www.punchng.com/news/ebola-la...dary-contacts/

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Sawyer: Lagos matron shows Ebola symptoms

August 6, 2014
There was gloom at the secretariat of the Nigerian Medical Association,Lagos State chapter when the association?s Chairman, Dr. Tope Ojo, disclosed that the matron of the hospital where the Liberian-born American, Patrick Sawyer, was admitted for treatment was showing symptoms of Ebola virus.
The matron is one of the health workers at the Obalende, Lagos hospital who attended to Sawyer before he died of the disease (Ebola) on July 25..
A female medical doctor, who also participated in managing the Liberian- American was confirmed on Monday by the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, to have contracted the deadly virus.
Apart from the female medical doctor and the matron, six other people suspected to have been infected with the virus are being quarantined at the IDH, Yaba.
Ojo, who added that 30 striking doctors had volunteered to attend to the medical needs of all those with Ebola-related case, stated that the female medical doctor was stable.
He said, ?We know that the infected doctor is stable, however, the matron is showing symptoms too. But everybody, including the experts from the World Health Organisation, are doing all they can.
?Strike or no strike, we must respond to emergencies. Our doctors are at the Yaba hospital where isolated contacts are being monitored.?
Ojo however said the NMA was having a challenge getting volunteers to be part of the Ebola Case Management Committee because of the fear of contracting the virus.
The NMA chairman said, ?There are seven committees working on the management of the disease at the centre in Lagos which our members are part of.
? But the committee which we are having a challenge getting volunteers is that of case management. This committee comprises people that work directly with confirmed cases.
?Our doctors are worried about the danger it(Ebola virus) poses to their lives and they need to be reassured.
?We understand their fears andovernment for doctors.?
He stressed the need for we are making moves to confirm the level of preparedness of the g the government to put adequate measures in place to assure health workers of their safety in stemming the virus.
? Look at the protective measures that doctors in Liberia and Guinea wear. They are well protected, yet some of them still caught it,? Ojo said.
A doctor in one of the committees, Dr. Babajide Saheed, said they were working closely with WHO and other stakeholders to contain the spread of the virus.


Saheed said,? Not all doctors can attend to an Ebola patient. In fact, you must limit the number of health workers treating affected persons just to contain the risk.
?We will be escalating the situation if doctors rush to the Mainland hospital to attend to patients.?
A top official of the IDH said the Lagos State Government should designate one of its hospitals to accommodate more persons that might be isolated for monitoring.
?The mainland hospital may not be enough if we are to isolate more persons who had contact with Sawyer and those who have had direct contact with those people too,? he added.
He said that ? instead of using a ward in an hospital, it is better to just designate a whole hospital and evacuate patients from it.?


The Bloomberg Businessweek reported on Tuesday that Nigeria was considering applying for a dose of the experimental Ebola therapy to treat the Lagos female doctor.
?We will exploit the possibility of getting some (ZMapp Experimental Drug),? the Lagos State Health Commissioner, Jide Idris, said.
The San Diego, United States-based Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc.?s experimental ZMapp drug had only been tested on infected animals before it was given to Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, the two U S health workers who were infected with the virus in Liberia.
Airline?s manifest with FG, says LASG
Also on Tuesday, the Lagos State Government said Asky Airline had made the full manifest of passengers on its flight KP50 available to the Federal Government.
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However, the Health Commissioner , Dr. Idris, said on Tuesday that the Federal Government had the list.
The commissioner, while updating journalists on development on the virus in the state, said, ?The airline has made the comprehensive list of the people on the flight available to the Federal Government through the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria.?
Idris added that the government was still compiling a list of all the primary and secondary contacts of the Lagos female doctor who contracted the Ebola virus from Sawyer.
The Commissioner, who also dispelled the rumour that the doctor had died, said the development was part of measures to curb the spread of the disease.
According to him, contact tracing is one of the measures needed to curb the spread of the virus.
He urged the public to be vigilant, especially with regards to relating with ill people.
Idris said, ?Contact tracing is essential and very important to stop the spread of Ebola virus. In the case of the doctor, who was infected, we have contacted her family and have opened a comprehensive list of people that had contact with her.
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Flight manifest can?t be made public- FAAN
However, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has said that it cannot reveal to the public, the names of passengers onboard the flight that brought in the late Sawyer into Nigeria.
Reacting to request in some quarters that the names of those onboard the flight be made public, the General Manager, Public Affairs, NCAA, Mr. Fan Ndubuoke, told one of our correspondents in Abuja that it was the duty of the agency to protect the passengers.
He said, ?If we mention your name as one of the passengers on that flight, tell me, how will people see you? This is not a plane crash that will require us to say that the deseased?s relatives need to know those on the flight.
?These people are not dead; they are alive and we have a duty to protect them while they are receiving treatment. You can?t release such a manifest to the public because this will cause stigmatisation. We have had reason to state that it is not possible.?
On what is currently happening to those onboard the flight, Ndubuoke said the FederaL Ministry of Health was in contact with them.
He said, ?The Minister of Health has stated that there were 50 passengers onboard that flight apart from Sawyer. He made it clear that the ministry was getting in touch with all of them. The Health ministry had explained that it was in touch with all of them and was monitoring and investigating them. Even the driver that took Sawyer is being monitored.?

World Bank pledges N32bn to fight Ebola
Meanwhile, the World Bank Group on Tuesday pledged $200m (N32bn) to contain the spread of Ebola in West Africa.

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Re: Nigeria - Ebola: 7 cases, 2 fatalities

Ebola virus disease, West Africa ? update 6 August 2014 E-mail Print
Epidemiology and surveillance

Between 2 and 4 August 2014, a total of 108 new cases of Ebola virus disease (laboratory-confirmed, probable, and suspect cases) as well as 45 deaths were reported from Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.

Health sector response

A mission briefing with representatives from Member States was held on 5 August at the World Health Organization (WHO). Information about the nature of Ebola virus disease (EVD) was highlighted. This was followed by outlining the essential components for control, including the need for national leadership, improved care and case management, identifying transmission chains and stopping disease spread, and preventing further outbreaks. Among the critical issues are: cross-border infections and travelers; partners reaching the limits of their capacity and ability to respond rapidly, safely, and effectively; and concerns about the socio-economic impact of continued transmission.

The Director-General also shared information from her recent meetings in Guinea with Member States of the Mano River Union ? C?te d?Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. She outlined that the response in West Africa would focus on three areas:

Treatment of Gu?ck?dou, Kenema, and Foya as a unified sector, which will include public health measures meant to reduce movement in and out of the area.
Intensifying current measures in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.
Taking steps to reduce international spread to other countries in Africa and outside of the African Region.
The Sub-regional Ebola Operations Coordination Centre (SEOCC) in Conakry reported on 5 August that the following actions are underway in the four affected countries:

In Guinea, new foci have emerged and case management facilities will be needed. Exit screening is currently being tested in Conakry, in partnership with the US CDC.
In Liberia, security issues continue to be of concern, notwithstanding the commitment of the Government. Community resistance remains high.
In Nigeria, the Government is focused on following up the contacts from the index case. Clinical support is urgently needed and a treatment centre is being set up for managing cases of EVD.
In Sierra Leone, efforts are underway to map where treatment centres are most needed and getting those set up. A similar exercise is underway for laboratories.
The SEOCC is assisting countries with these and many other response measures.

On 6 August, WHO is convening an Emergency Committee of international experts to review the outbreak and advise the Director-General, in accordance with the International Health Regulations, whether the Ebola virus disease outbreak constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Experts will receive an epidemiological briefing and will determine whether the criteria for a PHEIC have been met. If the Emergency Committee agrees that this is a PHEIC, they will then advise the Director-General on temporary recommendations. A summary of the meeting will be made public and a press briefing will be held on Friday, 8 August.

Disease update

New cases and deaths attributable to EVD continue to be reported by the Ministries of Health in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. Between 2 and 4 August 2014, 108 new cases (laboratory-confirmed, probable, and suspect cases) of EVD and 45 deaths were reported from the four countries as follows: Guinea, 10 new cases and 5 deaths; Liberia, 48 new cases and 27 deaths; Nigeria, 5 new cases and 0 death; and Sierra Leone, 45 new cases and 13 deaths.

As of 4 August 2014, the cumulative number of cases attributed to EVD in the four countries stands at 1 711, including 932 deaths. The distribution and classification of the cases are as follows: Guinea, 495 cases (351 confirmed, 133 probable, and 11 suspected), including 363 deaths; Liberia, 516 cases (143 confirmed, 252 probable, and 121 suspected), including 282 deaths; Nigeria, 9 cases (0 confirmed, 2 probable, and 7 suspected), including 1 death; and Sierra Leone, 691 cases (576 confirmed, 49 probable, and 66 suspected), including 286 deaths.

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Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos dies- tested positive for filovirus; 2nd suspected case reported

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-08-06/nigerian-nurse-dies-of-ebola-as-5-others-confirmed-with-disease

Nigerian Nurse Dies of Ebola as 5 Others Confirmed With Disease

Daniel Magnowski August 06, 2014

Nigeria recorded its first known fatality from Ebola virus infection with the death of a nurse in Lagos, the commercial capital, Health MinisterOnyebuchi Chukwu said.

The nurse had attended to Liberian government worker Patrick Sawyer, who became sick from the virus after arriving on a flight to Lagos and later died on July 25.

Five other cases are being treated in Lagos, Chukwu said in a statement handed to reporters today in Abuja, the capital of Africa?s most populous country of about 170 million people.

Nigeria may try to obtain some of the experimental Ebola therapy given to two Americans who contracted the disease in Liberia, Jide Idris, Lagos health commissioner, told reporters yesterday.

The outbreak of the Ebola virus has killed 887 people, according to the World Health Organization. Most of the cases are in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, on West Africa?s Atlantic coast. Nigeria does not share a border with any of those countries.

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Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos dies- tested positive for filovirus; 2nd suspected case reported

Nigerian Health Minister says nurse died of Ebola

August 6 at 6:36 AM
ABUJA, Nigeria - Nigeria's health minister says a nurse died of Ebola and the country has five additional confirmed cases of the disease.

Onyebuchi Chukwu said Wednesday that all the Ebola cases are being treated in isolation in Lagos, sub-Saharan Africa’s largest city with 21 million people. He said the nurse had treated the man who traveled from Liberia and died of Ebola in Lagos last month.

The five other confirmed cases are believed to be health workers who treated Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer who was sick when he flew into Lagos and died days later on July 25.

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Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos dies- tested positive for filovirus; 2nd suspected case reported

Nurse dies in Nigeria's second Ebola fatality: minister
ABUJA Wed Aug 6, 2014 4:14pm IST

(Reuters) - A Nigerian nurse infected with the Ebola virus has died, the second confirmed fatality from the disease in Africa's most populous nation and leading oil producer, the country's health minister said on Wednesday.

The nurse, the first native Nigerian to die from the disease, had been involved in the treatment of Patrick Sawyer,
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(Reporting by Tim Cocks; Editing by Pascal Fletcher)

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Nigerian Health Minister Says Nurse Died of Ebola
ABUJA, Nigeria — Aug 6, 2014, 7:18 AM ET
By BASHIR ADIGUN Associated Press
Associated Press
A Nigerian nurse has died of Ebola and the country has five other confirmed cases of the disease, Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said Wednesday.

The nurse had treated a man who flew into Lagos and later died of Ebola last month, Chukwu said in a statement handed to reporters in Abuja, the capital.

He said the five confirmed Ebola patients are being treated in isolation in Lagos, sub-Saharan Africa's largest city with 21 million people.

The five with the disease had direct contact with Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer
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http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/nigerian-health-minister-nurse-died-ebola-24860515