Ebola workers www.independent.co.uk SaharaReporters has learned that as many as 40 persons may have been quarantined in Lagos on suspicion of Ebola infection, and some of them may already have tested positive.

In an email to fellow members of an Igbo group (Igboville), John Okiyi Kalu, told the story of a nurse who became a member last December and joined an effort to provide free medical services in Aba.

That member, who subsequently took a job in Lagos this year, appears to have been one of the nurses who attended to Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian who died of Ebola in the city last week. One of those nurses died yesterday.

Mr. Kalu said in the email that his group wants to launch twitter and facebook campaigns starting on Friday morning using the hash tag, #GiveThemExperimentalDrugs to draw attention to their plight, and to prevail on the United States to send the drugs to needy African countries.