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

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

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

This article mentions that the flight was from Sierra Leone?

Translation Google

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/nou...e-par-lome-le-togo-prend-ses-precautions.html
 
Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos tested- dies- positive for ebola

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

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

If it is correct that Sawyer had no contact with his sister, then the probability is that he had contact with an intermediary who must have been carrying the virus, either on clothing or because they were themselves infected. Given that the sister died 3 weeks prior, it is more likely to be the latter, but this person cannot have been strongly symptomatic? I hope the mystery about how this man contracted his infection is solved quickly.
 
Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos tested- dies- positive for ebola

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

With both this case and the physician in Sierra Leone, I am concerned that the transmission route could be changing such that transmission is more efficient.

Vibrant62 said:
If it is correct that Sawyer had no contact with his sister, then the probability is that he had contact with an intermediary who must have been carrying the virus, either on clothing or because they were themselves infected. Given that the sister died 3 weeks prior, it is more likely to be the latter, but this person cannot have been strongly symptomatic? I hope the mystery about how this man contracted his infection is solved quickly.
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Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos tested- dies- positive for ebola

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

Arik Air suspends flight to Monrovia , Freetown over Ebola outbreak

By Mos Abaka
July 27, 2014 21:14:17pm GMT
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Spokesman of Arik Air, Mr Banji Ola said the suspension of flights effective July 28, 2014 is a pre cautionary measure aimed at safeguarding the lives of Nigerians.

The airline has therefore advised the Federal Government to immediately suspend all in bound flights into Nigeria from any of the Ebola affected countries.

In a statement, Arik Air said: "As a result of the first Ebola virus death officially confirmed in Lagos, involving a Liberian national who flew on a foreign (Non-Nigerian) regional based airline from Monrovia via Lome (Togo) into the city last week, Arik Air will be suspending operations into Monrovia (Liberia) and Freetown (Sierra Leone) effective July 28, 2014.

" The suspension will be in force until further notice. This decision is a pre-cautionary measure aimed at safeguarding the precious lives of Nigerians.
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http://www.worldstagegroup.com/worldstagenew/index.php?active=news&newscid=16954&catid=27
 
Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos tested- dies- positive for ebola

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

Some additional patient information here

http://allafrica.com/stories/201407280544.html?aa_source=useful-column

Sawyer flew into Nigeria onboard Asky Airline to attend an ECOWAS conference in Calabar, Cross River State.
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In a statement by the hospital's Chief Consultant/ Medical Director, Dr B.N. Ohiaeri and the Senior Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist, Dr. A.S. Adadevoh, it said the hospital was under pressure to release the victim.

According to the statement, "He was fully conscious and gave his clinical history and told us he was a senior diplomat from Liberia. We refused to let him out of the hospital in spite of intense pressure as we were told he was a senior ECOWAS official who had an important role to play at the ECOWAS convention in Calabar. The initial test result from the Lagos University Teaching Hospital laboratory indicated a signal of possible Ebola Virus Disease, but required confirmation.

"We then took the further step of reaching out to senior officials in the office of the Secretary of Health of the United States of America, who promptly assisted us with contacts at the Centre for Disease Control and World Health Organisation regional laboratory centre in Senegal. Jointly working with the state, Federal agencies and international agencies, we were able to obtain confirmation of Ebola Virus Disease (Zaire strain). The gentleman subsequently died on Friday at 6.50am (25th July, 2014)."
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Meanwhile, a cross section of Lagos residents has urged the state and federal governments to spread their dragnet nationwide to ensure that all the co- passengers aboard the Asky aircraft that brought the victim to Nigeria are quickly located and screened for the virus.
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This latter comment relates to the fact that passenger manifests are not always held in this region of Africa i.e contact tracing of fellow passengers is going to rely on passengers coming forward for screening.
 
Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos tested- dies- positive for ebola

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

From http://www.news.com.au/world/the-ar...around-the-world/story-fndir2ev-1227004137380

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 authorised to speak to the press.
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Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos tested- dies- positive for ebola

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

Assuming nothing has changed with the virus (and that's a big assumption), it is not standard procedure to quarantine healthy contacts. Contacts are usually given 21 days of monitoring (taking temperature several times a day), and put in isolation only if they become unwell.

That's why, even in a large city, with proper action and cooperation, Ebola should be easier to contain than SARS was.
 
Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos tested- dies- positive for filovirus

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

Nigeria isolates Lagos hospital where Ebola victim died

By Tim Cocks
LAGOS Mon Jul 28, 2014 5:08pm BST
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"The private hospital was demobilised (evacuated) and the primary source of infection eliminated. The decontamination process in all the affected areas has commenced," Lagos state health commissioner Jide Idris told a news conference.

Some hospital staff who were in close contact with the victim have been isolated. The hospital will be shut for a week and all staff closely monitored, Idris added.

Authorities are monitoring a total of 59 people who were in contact with Sawyer, including airport contacts, the Lagos state health ministry said. But the airline he flew in with has yet to provide a passenger-list for the flights he used, it added.

... Derek Gatherer, a virologist at Britain?s University of Lancaster, said anyone on the plane near Sawyer could be in "pretty serious danger", but added relatively wealthy Nigeria was better placed to tackle the outbreak than poorer neighbours.
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David Heymann, head of the Centre on Global Health Security at London's Chatham House, said every person who had been on the plane to Lagos with Sawyer would need to be traced and be told to monitor their temperature twice a day for 21 days.
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"WHO is sending teams to both Nigeria and Togo to do follow- up work in relation to contact tracing, in particular to contacts he may have had on board the flight," WHO spokesman Paul Garwood said.
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http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/07/28/uk-health-ebola-nigeria-idUKKBN0FX15C20140728
 
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Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos tested- dies- positive for ebola

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

Former Minn. man victim of Ebola outbreak

Lindsey Seavert, KARE 8:10 p.m. EDT July 28, 2014

MINNEAPOLIS - The Minnesota Department of Health is working with leaders in the local Liberian community to address concerns about an Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

This comes after a former Coon Rapids man collapsed from the virus in an airport in Lagos, the capital of Nigeria. His following death marked the first recorded case in Nigeria, the continent's most populated country.

Patrick Sawyer, 40, was a top government official in the Liberian Ministry of Finance, and moved to Liberia to serve the country he loved, according to his wife Decontee Sawyer, who still lives in Coon Rapids with the couple's three young daughters, ages 5,4, and 1.
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Sawyer said she believes her husband contracted the virus from his sister. She said she is starting a Minnesota organization called Concerned Liberians Against Ebola which will benefit the Global Health Ministries and Samaritan Purse organizations.
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http://www.kare11.com/story/news/he...r-minn-man-victim-of-ebola-outbreak/13299501/
 
Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos tested- dies- positive for ebola

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

Xinhua News AgencyJuly 7, 2014 12:30July 7, 2014 12:30

Nigeria suspends airline for flying Ebola virus victim

LAGOS, July 29 (Xinhua) -- The Nigerian government has suspended all ASky Airline flight operations to Nigeria over the transportation of an Ebola virus victim into the country.

Benedict Adeyileka, acting director-general of Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) announced the decision in a statement in Lagos on Tuesday, the nation's economic hub.

The west African nation regulatory authority had to take the action to protect Nigerians from the deadly Ebola virus, currently ravaging some parts of Africa, the director general said.

ASky Airline is an important player in East, West and Central Africa, operating 80 flights into Lagos and Abuja weekly.
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http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/...ia-suspends-airline-flying-ebola-virus-victim
 
Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos tested- dies- positive for ebola

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

LASG: Nigeria?s ambassador never had contact with Ebola victim

Jul 29, 2014

Making a U-turn on its earlier position to that effect, the Lagos State Government (LASG) has now said it was a representative of the President of the Economic Community of West African States, Kadre Desire Ouedraogo, who had the contact with the Ebola virus victim.

A statement on Tuesday by Hakeem Bello, the Special Adviser on Media to Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola of Lagos State, apologised for the mix-up though it was blamed on the representative of the Federal Government at the press briefing.
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The state?s Commissioner of Health, Dr. Jide Idris, had on Monday listed Obi-Nnadozie as one of the 59 persons that came into contact with the Ebola virus victim.
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http://newtelegraphonline.com/lasg-nigerias-ambassador-never-had-contact-with-ebola-victim/
 
Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos tested- dies- positive for ebola

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

Ebola Virus: Lagos Government Says First Consultants Acted Professionally

The Lagos State Government has thrown its weight behind the First Consultant Medical Center.

The Special Adviser on Public Health to the Lagos State Government, Dr. Yewande Adeshina, told Channels Television earlier on Tuesday that the hospital took all the necessary precautions in caring for the victim who died last week.
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“The hospital was locked down in the sense that he died while in the hospital. Although it is not common to be (infected) in the same room, if you didn’t touch him, chances are that you wouldn’t get the infection.

“But some of the staff might have attended to him that would have gone round the rest of the hospital in this first 24 hours. There were other patients in the wards that they might have attended to.”

http://www.channelstv.com/2014/07/2...-says-first-consultants-acted-professionally/
 
Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos tested- dies- positive for ebola

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

The race to track who met with Ebola victim

7:00 AM Tuesday Jul 29, 2014
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No one knows for sure just how many people Patrick Sawyer came into contact with the day he boarded a flight in Liberia, had a stopover in Ghana, changed planes in Togo, and then arrived in Nigeria, where authorities say he died days later from Ebola, one of the deadliest diseases known to man.

Now health workers are scrambling to trace those who may have been exposed to Sawyer across West Africa, including flight attendants and fellow passengers.
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In Sawyer's case, it appears nothing was done to question him until he fell sick on his second flight with Asky Airlines. An airline spokesman would not comment on what precautions were being taken in the aftermath of Sawyer's journey.
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11300693
 
Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos tested- dies- positive for ebola

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

Ebola virus disease, West Africa ? update 29 July 2014
Epidemiology and surveillance

The World Health Organization (WHO) continues to monitor the evolution of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Nigeria. The Ebola epidemic trend in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea remains precarious, with continuing community and health-facility transmissions of infection.

Between 24 and 27 July 2014, a total of 122 new cases (suspect, probable, and laboratory-confirmed cases) as well as 57 deaths were reported from Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria.

The surge in the number of new EVD cases especially in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea calls for concentrated efforts by all to address the identified problems such as health facility transmission and effective contact tracing.

In Nigeria, IHR focal person report confirms that the probable case notified was symptomatic at the time of arrival in Nigeria and that 59 contacts (15 from among the airport staff and 44 from the hospital) have been identified so far. The report also confirms that the patient travelled by air and arrived in Lagos, Nigeria, on 20th July via Lom?, Togo and Accra, Ghana.

The sample from this case is yet to be sent to the WHO Collaborating Centre at the Institute Pasteur in Dakar, Senegal, due to refusal by courier companies to transport this sample. Though only one probable case has been detected so far in Nigeria, Ebola virus infection in this country represents a significant development in the course of this outbreak.

The national authority in Nigeria, Togo and Ghana continue to work closely with WHO and partners in identification of contact and contact tracing as well as in preparing response plans.

Health sector response

In an effort to accelerate the response to the current EVD outbreak in West Africa, the Director General of WHO and other senior managers continue to hold discussions with the donor community, development partners as well as international agencies at a global level. Focus of discussion has centered among others on the need to rapidly deploy additional resources (human and financial) that will help interrupt Ebola transmission.

Efforts are currently ongoing to scale up and strengthen all aspects of the response in the four countries, including epidemiologic investigations, contact tracing, public information and community mobilization, case management and infection prevention and control, coordination and staff security. WHO is also working closely with various partners to finalize the national response plans that define urgent response needs in line with the Accra?s strategy adopted by Member States.

WHO and Partners (CDC, MSF, UNICEF, IFRC, Institute Pasteur of Dakar, Save the Children, Plan Guinea and others) continue to work together through the Sub-regional Ebola Outbreak Coordination Center (SEOCC) in Conakry in accelerating the control of this outbreak.

WHO does not recommend any travel or trade restrictions is applied to Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone or Nigeria, based on the current information available for this event.

Disease update

New cases and deaths attributable to EVD continue to be reported by the Ministries of Health in the four West African countries of Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. Between 24 and 27 July 2014, 122 new cases (laboratory-confirmed, probable, and suspect cases) of EVD, and 57 deaths, were reported from the four countries as follows: Guinea, 33 new cases and 20 deaths; Liberia, 80 new cases and 27 deaths; Sierra Leone, 8 new cases and 9 deaths; and Nigeria, 1 new case who died.

As of 27 July 2014, the cumulative number of cases attributed to EVD in the four countries stands at 1323 including 729 deaths. The distribution and classification of the cases are as follows: Guinea, 460 cases (336 confirmed, 109 probable, and 15 suspected) including 339 deaths; Liberia, 329 cases (100 confirmed, 128 probable, and 101 suspected) including 156 deaths; Sierra Leone, 533 cases (473 confirmed, 38 probable, and 22 suspected) including 233 deaths; and Nigeria, 1 probable case who died.

Confirmed, probable, and suspect cases and deaths from Ebola virus disease in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria as of 27 July 2014
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http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters...a-virus-disease-west-africa-29-july-2014.html
 
Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos tested- dies- positive for ebola; 2nd suspected case reported

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

Source: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=74618


Another suspected case of Ebola in Nigeria
By AZOMA CHIKWE on July 31, 2014 ? COVER

Barely seven days after Mr. Pat*rick Sawyer, a Liberian, died in a private hospital in La*gos, one of the personnel, who helped him out of the aircraft on his arrival in Lagos, has shown signs of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).

The latest victim, who was said to have helped the late Sawyer, but has not yet been named, was among the 59 persons the Federal Government and the Lagos State Government registered to have had contact with the late Sawyer immediately on his arrival in Nigeria on Sun*day, July 20...
 
Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos tested- dies- positive for ebola; 2nd suspected case reported

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

Sawyer’s Final Hours In Lagos: ‘Indiscipline’, Rage, Strange

Lagos, Nigeria - Barely 24 hours before his death, Patrick Sawyer had a rather strange - and in the words of medical and diplomatic sources here, “Indiscipline” encounter with nurses and health workers at First Consultants Hospital in Obalende, one of the most crowded parts of Lagos, a population of some 21 million inhabitants, FrontPageAfrica has learned.

Looking to get to the bottom of Sawyer’s strange ailment on the Asky Airline flight, which Sawyer transferred on in Togo, hospital officials say, he was tested for both malaria and HIV AIDS. However, when both tests came back negative, he was then asked whether he had made contact with any person with the Ebola Virus, to which Sawyer denied. Sawyer’s sister, Princess had died of the deadly virus on Monday, July 7, 2014 at the Catholic Hospital in Monrovia. On Friday, July 25, 2014, 18 days later, Sawyer died in Lagos.

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FrontPageAfrica has now learned that upon being told he had Ebola, Mr. Sawyer went into a rage, denying and objecting to the opinion of the medical experts. “He was so adamant and difficult that he took the tubes from his body and took off his pants and urinated on the health workers, forcing them to flee."

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http://frontpageafricaonline.com/in...inal-hours-in-lagos-indiscipline-rage-strange

If that is correct, those health workers are at considerable risk
 
Re: Nigeria - Ebola: Liberian man in Lagos tested- dies- positive for ebola; 2nd suspected case reported

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

:tiphat: Montreme

Lagos Official Claims There?s Another Suspected Case of Ebola in Nigeria
http://www.bellanaija.com/2014/07/3...s-another-suspected-case-of-ebola-in-nigeria/

It has been revealed by a top official at the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Yaba, Lagos, that a man who helped the late Liberian Ebola victim Patrick Sawyer, on the Monrovia-Lome, and Lome-Lagos flight may have been infected with the deadly virus.

Punch and The Sun report that although it has not been concluded that the man has Ebola, he is showing feverish signs similar to that of the virus.

?We are still investigating and monitoring those who had first contact with Sawyer. One of the people who helped him off the plane is showing signs of fever, a symptom of Ebola. We have isolated them and we are carrying out various tests to establish if it is Ebola or not.?, the source said.

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The Lagos State Government on Monday said 59 people came in contact with the 40-year-old Liberian who died of Ebola virus on July 25.

CNN is also reporting that the Peace Corps as well as other agencies revealed that its 340 volunteers in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea will exit the country because of the outbreak.

It was not specified when they may return.

All schools in Liberia have also been shut down according to BBC.
 
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