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

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Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos tested- dies- positive for ebola

Nigeria Death Shows Ebola Can Spread by Air Travel

ABUJA, Nigeria ? Jul 26, 2014, 3:31 PM ET

By HEATHER MURDOCK Associated Press
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The fact that the traveler from Liberia could board an international flight also raised new fears that other passengers could take the disease beyond Africa due to weak inspection of passengers and the fact Ebola's symptoms are similar to other diseases.
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Patrick Sawyer, a consultant for the Liberian Ministry of Finance arrived in Nigeria on Tuesday and was immediately detained by health authorities suspecting he might have Ebola, Plyler said.
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Sawyer reportedly did not show Ebola symptoms when he boarded the plane, Plyler said, but by the time he arrived in Nigeria he was vomiting and had diarrhea. There has not been another recently recorded case of Ebola spreading through air travel, he added.

Nearly 50 other passengers on the flight are being monitored for signs of Ebola but are not being kept in isolation, said an employee at Nigeria's Ministry of Health, who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press.

Sawyer's sister also died of Ebola in Liberia, according to Liberian officials, but he claimed to have had no contact with her...
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http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/nigeria-confirms-ebola-death-24719171

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Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos tested- dies- positive for ebola

This article mentions that the flight was from Sierra Leone?

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Ebola went through Lom?: Togo takes precautions

Written by TOGO BREAKING NEWS
Publish in Health Saturday, July 26, 2014 6:17 p.m.

So far, Togo has not recorded a case of Ebola. But the Ministry of Health and Crisis Cell establishment since several months for the management of the disease in Togo are activated for contingencies.
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Here is the statement from the Ministry of Health

Since January 2014, the Ebola fever, a highly contagious and highly fatal viral disease prevails in the sub-region of West Africa including Guinea Conakry, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

On 20 July 2014, a suspected patient from Sierra Leone and transiting through the international airport Gnassingbe Eyadema in Lome, reportedly died in Lagos, Nigeria on July 25, 2014.

Faced with this situation, the Crisis management of the disease Ebola informs the population of the following. Technical measures and close monitoring of daily passengers arrived in Lom? from the same flight are taken to deal with any eventuality. The various crises cells are activated to deal with any situations.

In addition, the Ministry of Health informs the population and especially the passengers who took the same flight from Sierra Leone on 20 July 2014 to watch for the following signs: sudden fever due to one or more of the following signs: diarrhea containing blood, black stools, urine with blood, sputum with traces of blood, vomiting with blood, blood flowing from the nose or presence of blood in any part of the body.

In case of these signs, call the 111 or go to consultation in the health center or the nearest public hospital and inform health personnel of your country of origin.

Moreover, the public is invited to observe the following measures: Wash hands several times a day with soap and water, avoid handling the effects of unprotected people with pre signs mentioned, avoid touching unprotected anyone suffering from high fever and bleeding, avoid handling or eating the meat of live and dead wild animals (agouti, Bat, monkey, ras, etc.).

NB: Your health and that of your loved ones depend on how fast your reaction toward the appearance of signs described above.

Done at Lom? July 26, 2014

The Ministry of Health

http://www.togobreakingnews.com/nouvelles/sante/ebola-passe-par-lome-le-togo-prend-ses-precautions.html

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Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos tested- dies- positive for ebola

Panic as Ebola patient dies in Lagos

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Addressing newsmen in Alausa on Friday, the state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, who was joined by his Information and Strategy counterpart, Mr. Aderemi Ibirogba, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Public Health, Dr. Yewande Adeshina, and the Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Mr. Raji Lateef, confirmed that Sawyer, before his death, tested positive to Ebola virus in the test conducted in the country.

According to him, “The patient we heard died over night and ever since then we have tried as much as possible to contain it, we need to sanitise, we need to treat the body properly, we need to dispose of the body properly and those are the things we are working out right now. These are the processes we need to follow and we are following, and we are doing this in conjunction with the Federal Ministry of Health staff.

“There is a protocol, we are talking with the hospital involved and the staff. After dealing with the body we have to deal with the hospital, to sanitize the hospital. More importantly too, there is the need for us to do contact tracing. We are doing that with the World Health Organisation; we are going to trace all the contacts that the man came in with and the plane he came on.

“Since we have got the manifest, we are going to trace all of them. Each one of them is going to be questioned; there is protocol for questioning and the contacts are going to be followed in the next 21 days to see if any of them developed any symptoms. This is what we are in the process of doing.”

With respect to the borders, he said there are people manning the borders, seaports and airports in Lagos, saying the state government was in contact with the Federal Government officials in charge of the borders.

He said: “First and foremost, we need to dispose of the body properly; there are issues involving diplomatic relationship and we need to get consent from Liberia, which the Ministers of Health and External Affairs are dealing with right now. But we have to preserve the body, sanitise the hospital and ensure that the virus that killed the adult does not spread.”

Idris urged Lagosians not to panic, saying that treatment centres would be set up in the state to deal with any possible spread of the disease.

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http://dailyindependentnig.com/2014/07/panic-ebola-patient-dies-lagos/

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Source: http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...megacity-lagos


Ebola Kills Liberian in Nigeria?s First Case in Megacity Lagos
By Yinka Ibukun and Elisha Bala-Gbogbo July 25, 2014

The Ebola virus claimed its first victim in Nigeria as a Liberian man died from the hemorrhagic fever in Lagos, the country?s commercial capital and sub-Saharan Africa?s largest city.

Local laboratory results showed the victim tested positive for Ebola, Lagos state Health Commissioner Jide Idris told reporters in the city yesterday. Separate results from a World Health Organization facility in Senegal?s capital, Dakar, have yet to arrive, he said. A list is being compiled of all the people who had contact with the patient, he said.

?We?re assuming it?s Ebola until further notice,? Idris said. ?The public should not panic. We?re trying as much as possible to take the measures that will contain the spread.? ...

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Nigeria confirms Ebola case in megacity of Lagos
By Felix Onuah and Tom Miles

ABUJA/GENEVA Fri Jul 25, 2014 3:25pm EDT

(Reuters) - A Liberian man who died in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos on Friday tested positive for the deadly Ebola virus, Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said.

Patrick Sawyer, a consultant for the Liberian finance ministry in his 40s, collapsed on Sunday after flying into Lagos, a city of 21 million people, and was taken from the airport and put in isolation in a local hospital. Nigeria confirmed earlier on Friday that he had died in quarantine.

"His blood sample was taken to the advance laboratory at the Lagos university teaching hospital, which confirmed the diagnosis of the Ebola virus disease in the patient," Chukwu told a press conference on Friday. "This result was corroborated by other laboratories outside Nigeria."

However, at a separate press conference held by the Lagos state government at the same time, the city's health commissioner, Jide Idris, said that they were only "assuming that it was Ebola" because they were "waiting for a confirmative test to double check" from a laboratory in Dakar.

Paul Garwood, spokesman for the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, said the U.N. health agency was also still waiting for test results.

"We're still waiting for laboratory-confirmed results as to whether he died of Ebola or not," he said.

It could not be immediately determined why there was a contradiction in the comments from central government and city officials.

If confirmed, the man would be the first case on record of one of the world's deadliest diseases in Nigeria, Africa's biggest economy and with 170 million people, its most populous country. Ebola has killed 660 people across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since it was first diagnosed in February.

Sawyer was quarantined on arrival and had not entered the city, a Nigerian official told Reuters.

"While he was quarantined he passed away. Everyone who has had contact with him has been quarantined," the official said.

Liberia's finance minister Amara Konneh said Sawyer was a consultant for the country's finance ministry.

"Our understanding is that the cause of death was Ebola," Konneh told Reuters.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/25/us-heath-ebola-nigeria-idUSKBN0FU1LE20140725

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Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos being tested dies

If confirmed as Ebola, this man would clearly have been infectious during his travels. I wonder if he disembarked at Togo i.e if there was a flight change? If so there may be additional contacts to trace, both within the airport and the preceding flight itself.

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Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos being tested dies

According to this French article "the patient, aged 40, arrived from Monrovia via Lome, Togo, in the Nigerian economic capital Sunday and was hospitalized due to severe vomiting and diarrhea."
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http://www.leparisien.fr/flash-actua....google.com%2F

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Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos being tested dies

Liberian with Ebola-like symptoms dies

2014-07-25 15:10

Lagos - A Liberian man hospitalised in Lagos with Ebola-like symptoms has died, an official said Friday, without confirming the virus was the cause of his death.

The 40-year-old Monrovia resident arrived in Nigeria's mega-city on Sunday and was admitted to hospital after suffering from severe vomiting and diarrhoea.
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"The Liberian man has died," said a source with the Lagos state health ministry who requested anonymity. "We are still investigating the circumstances of his death."

The patient's blood samples have been sent to a lab in Lagos and the World Health Organization in Dakar. Lagos officials said results from a third lab outside Nigeria must come back before a final determination on Ebola can be made.
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Yewande Adeshina, special adviser on health for the Lagos government, said "the immediate concern was not to create panic".

She said an emergency response has been rolled out, including efforts to find "those who might have had direct contact with the man in order to prevent the risks of infection."

However, she declined to comment on what type of infection they were trying to prevent.
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Experts say that limiting the spread of the virus in a chaotic mega-city poses added complications compared to infections in more rural areas.
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- AFP

http://m.news24.com/nigeria/National/News/Liberian-with-Ebola-like-symptoms-dies-20140725

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Suspected Ebola victim dies in quarantine in Nigeria

Fri Jul 25, 2014 2:57pm GMT

GENEVA, July 25 (Reuters) - A Liberian man suspected to have Ebola virus has died in quarantine in Lagos, Nigeria, a Nigerian official in Geneva told Reuters on Friday.
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"While he was in quarantine he passed away," the official said.

(Reporting by Tom Miles; editing by Stephanie Nebehay, Larry King)

http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL6N0Q026220140725

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Ebola Kills Liberian in Lagos in Nigeria’s First Case of Disease

By Elisha Bala-Gbogbo and Yinka Ibukun Jul 25, 2014 9:32 AM CT

A Liberian made died of Ebola in the city of Lagos as Nigeria recorded its first case of the hemorrhagic fever, said Abdulsalami Nasidi, project director at the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.

“Suspicion was raised” after the man, who arrived in Lagos on July 20, showed symptoms similar to those of Ebola when he arrived Lagos, Yewande Adeshina, Lagos state adviser on public health, said in an e-mailed statement today.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-25/ebola-kills-liberian-in-lagos-in-nigeria-s-first-case-of-disease.html

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Not confirmed

Lagos Discovers First Case of Ebola Virus

25 Jul 2014

The Lagos State Government yesterday alerted the public that a Liberian national, suspected to have the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) was detected in a private hospital in the state last Tuesday.

In a swift move, the federal government was said to have deployed a team of high-profile medical practitioners to the state to detect deadly virus.

The Special Adviser on Public Health to the state government, Dr. Yewande Adeshina, disclosed this at a news conference which she addressed alongside the Project Director of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Prof. Abdulsalami Nasidi, among others at the Folarin Coker Staff Clinic, Alausa.

At the conference, Adeshina gave details about the suspected case of the virus, which she said were obtained from the private health facility where the patient was taken in Lagos.

She said the patient was “a 40-year-old national of Liberia working for a West African organisation in Monrovia. He arrived in Lagos on a flight from Monrovia via Lome on Sunday at about 4 p.m.”

The special adviser explained that the history of the patient “revealed that he had no contact with any case of the virus, did not visit any person with the virus in the hospital neither did he partake in the burial of any person who died of the virus.”

But Adeshina said a high index of suspicion was raised on account of his working and living in an endemic region for the virus like Liberia and the presentation of non-specific constitutional symptoms and signs of fever, malaise, body aches, vomiting, and diarrhea among other symptoms associated with the virus.

She said the patient’s condition “is stable and recovering. The diarrhea and vomiting has stopped. Intravenous infusion has also been stopped and he is now tolerating by mouth; while the health facility has since initiated universal safety precautionary measures to prevent spread of the disease and guaranteed the safety of other patients.”

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Liberian man being tested for Ebola after collapsing in Lagos

Source: Reuters - Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:55 GMT
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The special adviser on public health to the Lagos state government, Yewande Adeshina, told a news conference the man had collapsed on arrival in Lagos airport from Liberia on Sunday. He was rushed to hospital and put in an isolation ward, she said.

"The patient was admitted and detained on suspicion of possible EBV (Ebola) infection, while blood sample collection and testing was initiated," she said in her statement.

Samples had been sent to a World Health Organisation (WHO) laboratory in Dakar, she said, adding that "results are pending."
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Adeshina said Lagos state authorities had requested a flight manifest and would be contacting all the other passengers to warn them of the risk. They would also be tracing any places the passenger had been, and had already distributed protective clothing to health workers, she said.

(Writing by Tim Cocks, editing by Jeremy Gaunt, Larry King)

http://www.trust.org/item/20140724164959-cg8bt

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Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos being tested

Lagos State Confirms Possible Case Of Ebola Virus

The Lagos State Government has confirmed a possible case of Ebola Virus, which is been currently investigated while treatment is on for the 40 year old Liberian, who is now a suspect, and a possible 30 others who may have had contact.

Officials of the government in a briefing noted that the 40 year old Liberian is in a private hospital in the Obalende area of the State.

The officials also noted that the hospital housing the Liberian has been cordoned off and the victim isolated.
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By Channels Television|July 24th, 2014|

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http://www.channelstv.com/2014/07/24/lagos-state-confirms-possible-case-ebola-virus/

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Re: Nigeria - Media report of a death from hemorrhagic fever - ebola mentioned - dengue hemorrhagic fever confirmed

Liberian man in Nigeria's Lagos being tested for Ebola

Thu Jul 24, 2014 2:57pm GMT

LAGOS (Reuters) - A Liberian man in his 40s is being tested for the deadly Ebola virus in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos, a megacity of 21 million people, the Lagos State Health Ministry said on Thursday.
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This would be the first recorded case of one of the world's deadliest diseases in Nigeria, Africa's biggest economy and most populous nation, with 170 million people and some of Africa's least adequate health infrastructure.

http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKBN0FT1Z120140724

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Re: Nigeria - Media report of a death from hemorrhagic fever - ebola mentioned - dengue hemorrhagic fever confirmed

?Ebola, a time bomb Nigerians must prevent?
| 24.Jul.2014 |Sade Oguntola

Project Director, Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, Professor Abdulsalami Nasidi has called on all Nigerians to be proactive in preventing Ebola, a deadly disease that is without cure or vaccine, which he described as a time bomb.
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He said people should report anybody that travels into Nigeria from countries where ebola fever is now experienced, who developed fever to a medical centre.

The expert, noting that the disease was best prevented from getting into Nigeria, stated that in the last seven months, deaths from Ebola fever was about 80 per cent of all recorded deaths in East Africa.

Professor Nasidi urged that the viral disease should not be allowed to take Nigeria by surprise said that Ebola fever kills between 50 and 90 per cent of its victims.
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According to him, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control had set up six treatment centres in different parts of the country to be able to respond promptly in case it occurs.

Emeritus Professor Ayodele Falase, the chairman at the event said Ebola fever, was a disease that could also depopulate the health sector in Nigeria, adding that it was a death sentence.
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http://www.tribune.com.ng/health-news/item/11398-ebola-a-time-bomb-nigerians-must-prevent