The federal government on Wednesday confirmed
five new cases of Ebola in Lagos and a second
death from the virus, bringing the total number of
infections in sub-Saharan Africa’s largest city to
seven. Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, the Health Minister said
that among the medical personnel (nurse) that
attended to the late Liberian-American, Patrick
Sawyer, who died of Ebola virus in Lagos on July
25, has died of the same disease. “Nigeria has now recorded 7 confirmed cases of
Ebola Virus Disease (EVB)” health minister
Onyebuchi Chukwu said. Those who have died include the “index patient,” a
Liberian who brought the virus to Lagos on July 20,
and a nurse who treated him, the minister added. “All the Nigerians diagnosed with EBV were
primary contacts” of Patrick Sawyer, who worked
for Liberia’s finance ministry and contracted the
virus from his sister, Chukwu said. Patrick Sawyer travelled to Nigeria, Africa’s most
populous country, for a meeting of west African
officials. Visibly sick upon arrival at the international airport
in Lagos, officials said he was immediately
transferred to the First Consultants hospital in the
upmarket Ikoyi neighbourhood. He died in quarantine on July 25 and the hospital
has since been closed. The five Ebola patients are being treated in an
isolation ward in Lagos, the minister told journalists. Since breaking out earlier this year, the tropical
virus has claimed almost 900 lives and infected
more than 1,603 people across west Africa. The
other cases have been reported in Guinea, Liberia
and Sierra Leone.
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RIP to the nurse.

One of the nurses that attended to the Liberian-American Ebola victim in Lagos is now dead.

The nurse, whose name is withheld by the Health Ministry, is the first Nigerian to be killed by the virus.

A statement by the Minister of Health , Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu says Nigeria now records seven confirmed cases of Ebola, including that of the Liberian-American who died in Lagos.

All six Nigerians confirmed of the virus had primary contact with the late Liberian-American during treatment.

Source: http://www.channelstv.com/2014/08/06/nurse-treating-liberian-american-ebola-victim-dies/

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Ebola killing the innocent since 1977


RIP MADAM.

R.i.p

For the first time, a disease that is more deadly than HIV is plaguin African continent, for the sake of 2 much bush meat consumption

Rip, This days na the fear of ebola be the beginning of wisdom oh, thank God say i dey far away from Lagos, i pray say before this ebola reach us here for calabar city, oyingbo go find the cure, for now i no shake anybody hand again oh ,na waving sure pass

am f&&king scared

God please rest her soul in peace.

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#

DEO mi...

what a tragedy.. now this is damn scaring..


hope it doesn't get out of hand....



















































at least I've got my intl passport ready

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 ........ .....