Nigeria recorded its first known fatality from Ebola virus infection with the death of a nurse in Lagos, the commercial capital, Health MinisterOnyebuchi Chukwu said.
The nurse had attended to Liberian government worker Patrick Sawyer, who became sick from the virus after arriving on a flight to Lagos and later died on July 25.
Five other cases are being treated in Lagos, Chukwu said in a statement handed to reporters today in Abuja, the capital of Africa’s most populous country of about 170 million people.
Nigeria may try to obtain some of the experimental Ebola therapy given to two Americans who contracted the disease in Liberia, Jide Idris, Lagos health commissioner, told reporters yesterday.
The outbreak of the Ebola virus has killed 887 people, according to the World Health Organization. Most of the cases are in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, on West Africa’s Atlantic coast. Nigeria does not share a border with any of those countries.
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What!

omo see danger! wahala dey!

her incubation period was probably short, and thats not good news. pandemic alert

Sad but not unexpected. If only our gvt. had been sensible enough to put a screening point at the airport before that raw wickedness manifested its ugly self in the name of Patrick Slayer!

Now how many pple touch patrick sawyer. Then federal govt. Should gather them to one place and take adequate care with them.before every body will finished.

This is so painful

candy: Sad but not unexpected. If only our gvt. had been sensible enough to put a screening point at the airport before that raw wickedness manifested its ugly self in the name of Patrick Slayer!

*Hiss*
Soo true my dear. This is so unfortunate!


Unfortunately we know this is
just the beginning. All because
One man was allowed
entrance despite the fact he
was coming from a country
with the pandemic. If only we
were proactive on time, this
dutiful nurse will still be alive.
May her soul rest in peace.
US is waiting for millions to be
infected before they will make
the drug available.
How i wish we had invested in
research and development as a
continent. We are just so
backward. And truth is we
have no excuse. We got brains
in the African continent, but
no leadership.
#weeps for the black race#

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Jonathan good luck is a fool and an incompetent leader, very slow. why was the liberia-Nigeria border not closed upon hearing the epidemic out break in Liberia? the same reason bk boys escalated into what it is today, GEJ why are you slow in everything, including health related matters? bk menace is a pain in the ass of every patriotic Nigerian citizen. and here comes another problem capable of wiping off every living being in Nigeria off the surface of the earth.
Of a truth, when the head is sick the ........ .....

Now there's a real reason to be worried. Ebola has officially claimed it's first Nigerian victim.

Ebola horror: When Nigeria's first case was told he had Ebola, he pulled down pants and URINATED on the doctors - FPAfrica

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