Dr Stella Adadevoh is credited with having curbed a wider spread of the Ebola virus in Nigeria by placing the patient zero, Patrick Sawyer, in quarantine despite pressures from the Liberian government.


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When threatened by Liberian officials who wanted the patient to be discharged to attend a conference, she resisted the pressure and said, “for the greater public good” she would not release him.

She is known for preventing the Nigerian index case from leaving the hospital at the time of diagnosis, thereby playing a key role in curbing the spread of the virus in Nigeria.

On 4 August 2014, it was confirmed that she had tested positive for Ebola virus disease and was being treated.

Dr Adadevoh succumbed to the Ebola Virus Disease whilst in quarantine and died on the 19 August 2014 in Lagos, Nigeria.

Her body was decontaminated and cremated by the government in response to the containment of the spread of the Ebola Virus Disease.

Her family obtained her ashes and held a private interment ceremony on 12 September 2014, in Lagos.