NIGERIA: Ebola Claims First Victim, 5 More Positive
A nurse who treated Patrick Sawyer has died from Ebola virus fever after six more people tested positive, the health ministry announced. ...
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A nurse who treated Patrick Sawyer has died from Ebola virus fever after six more people tested positive, the health ministry announced.
All six who tested positive were in primary contact with the Liberian-American Sawyer who died in a Lagos hospital late July.
The nurse is the first Nigerian to die from Ebola.
Nigerian government has asked the US Centre for Disease Control to extend the experimental drug being administered to the two Americans infected in Liberia.
Both Americans are reported to be responding to treatment.
Health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu, at a hasty briefing this morning, demanded state governments to open up more isolation sites to contain people who might need to be treated or isolated.
He said the government would stop at nothing to contain the spread of Ebola.
Source: Daily Trust
All six who tested positive were in primary contact with the Liberian-American Sawyer who died in a Lagos hospital late July.
The nurse is the first Nigerian to die from Ebola.
Nigerian government has asked the US Centre for Disease Control to extend the experimental drug being administered to the two Americans infected in Liberia.
Both Americans are reported to be responding to treatment.
Health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu, at a hasty briefing this morning, demanded state governments to open up more isolation sites to contain people who might need to be treated or isolated.
He said the government would stop at nothing to contain the spread of Ebola.
Source: Daily Trust
