A Nigerian doctor has been
diagnosed with Ebola nearly three weeks after a
Liberian-American man with Ebola died after
traveling to Lagos, Nigerian officials said
Monday.
Nigerian Minister of Health Onyebuchi Chukwu
told reporters that the infected physician had
been treating Patrick Sawyer, a top government
official in the Liberian Ministry of Finance who
died of Ebola in a Nigerian hospital July 20.
Eight other people are being quarantined and
three are awaiting Ebola test results, the health
minister said.
Read more about Patrick Sawyer's death
Meanwhile, the World Health
Organization reports an outbreak of
the virus in Liberia, Sierra Leone,
Guinea and Nigeria is believed to
have infected 1,440 people and killed
more than 826 this year.