Washington - US health
authorities said Friday they are
sending extra personnel and
resources to Nigeria, which
has declared a national
emergency as it battles a deadly outbreak of Ebola for
the first time. "We are starting to ramp up
our staffing in Lagos," US
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention spokesman Tom
Skinner told AFP. "We are really concerned about
Lagos and the potential for
spread there, given the fact
that Lagos -- and Nigeria for
that matter -- has never seen
Ebola." Nigeria became the fourth
West African country involved
in the largest Ebola outbreak in
history when a dual US-
Liberian citizen who was
infected with Ebola traveled by plane to Lagos on July 20.
He died five days later. Eight people who came in
contact with him have been
diagnosed with Ebola, and
two have died. Ebola has killed 932 people in
Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia
and Nigeria since March, and
has infected more than 1,700
according to the World Health
Organization.
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