Lagos records another ​Ebola ​case - Fiance of a discharged Contact

[mac68DC]

Lagos records another ​Ebola ​case
September 8, 2014 - Nnenna Ibeh

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​"Nigeria has recorded another Ebola case, the Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, said Monday.

Mr. Chukwu​ ​​said the new case is the fiance of one of the primary contacts of the index case, Patrick Sawyer.

Mr. Sawyer is the Liberian-American who brought the virus to Nigeria late July.

Mr. Chukwu said the primary contact had, however, made a fully recovery.

Th​e new case brings the total number of Ebola cases in Nigeria to 19 with seven people dead from the disease while 10 others have recovered, the minister said.

He also noted that the sister of the Port Harcourt doctor, Ikechukwu Enemuo, who treated one of Mr. Sawyer?s primary contact in a hotel secretly, has fully recovered and been discharged.

Mr. Chukwu said with the latest developments, the total number of people under surveillance in Lagos have reduced to 27 while Port Harcourt has 477.

He also said that five people have been discharged from the Port Harcourt isolation center following completion of the 21 days observation period.

He dispelled rumo​u​rs of ​an​ outbreak of the disease in any other state or city in Nigeria, outside of Lagos and Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

He ​said​ Nigeria ​currently ​ha​s only one Ebola patient ? the wife of Mr. Enemuo ? whom he said was already recovering and would soon be discharged."
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Case of STD Ebola?

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Lagos records another ​Ebola ​case - Fiance of a discharged Contact

I'm not sure it is a new case; in this report she is mentioned as the 19th patient:

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=545603&postcount=112


Only 1 suspect patient reported in Nigeria : http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showpost.php?p=545606&postcount=113



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[mac68DC]

Re: Lagos records another ​Ebola ​case - Fiance of a discharged Contact

I'm not sure it is a new case; in this report she is mentioned as the 19th patient:
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Yup, you are right. Sorry about that. What I find interesting in this following link about this though, is that the symptoms were mild. So some people only have mild symptoms? That sounds bad.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201409091014.html

"Another person has tested positive to the Ebola Virus Disease in Lagos.

The Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu disclosed this in Abuja yesterday.

He identified the person as the fiancé of one of those who had primary a contact with Liberian-American who transmuted the virus to Nigeria, Patrick Sawyer.

This brings total confirmed cases to 19, some 50 days after the virus was first introduced into Nigeria by Sawyer.

The minister explained that the status of the fiancé could not be "categorically confirmed until now, because his test results were equivocal.

Further tests established the disease. He had only mild symptoms and has since recovered from the illness. He was quarantined, but because of the equivocal test result, he was not placed on active treatment."

more at above link...