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US Sends Medical Experts To Nigeria To Learn How Nigeria Contained Ebola by Cyberbaze(m): 12:03pm On Oct 04, 2014
The United States' Center for Disease Control and Prevention has sent its medical personnel to study how Nigeria contained the Ebola virus.
This is coming as the US government is trying to contain the virus on its soil. A statement released by US CDC Director Tom Frieden said

He said although Nigeria was not completely out of the woods, "their extensive response to a single case of Ebola shows that control is possible with rapid, focused interventions."


Apart from Nigeria, the US will also visit Senegal to study its model. Senegal has had no new reported cases of Ebola since Sept. 18 while Nigeria has not reported new ones since August 31,

Frieden said
"The best practices in Nigeria and Senegal suggest the U.S. should monitor all individuals who may have been exposed to Ebola and establish a dedicated management and response system."

US health officials are expected in Nigeria which it claimed had the best practices in combating Ebola Virus disease which entered into Nigeria through Liberian born American citizen Mr. Patrick Sawyer whose index case was reported on July 20, 2014. Nigeria is expected to officially announce today that the remaining two potential Ebola patients will exit the 21-day observation period.

The deadly virus has killed more than 3,000 people in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia

the pic below is the Liberian man, 42-year Eric Duncan, who was diagnosed with the 1st case of Ebola in US. Eric's Ebola case is said to be very serious
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