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Indonesia's top rescue official says
authorities believe the missing AirAsia jet is likely
at the bottom of the sea, based on radar data
from the plane's last contact.
"(Because) the coordinate that was given to us
and the evolution from the calculation point of
the flight track is at sea, our early conjecture is
that the plane is in the bottom of the sea,"
Bambang Sulistyo, head of Indonesia's national
search and rescue agency, told reporters
Monday.
But searchers still don't know where the plane
is, he said, and may need help from other
countries for help with an underwater search.

CNN: edition.cnn.com/2014/12/27/world/asia/airasia-missing-plane/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

The search is on for an AirAsia plane
carrying 162 people that lost contact with air
traffic control in Indonesia on Sunday.
Before communication was lost, AirAsia Flight
8501 asked to deviate from its planned flight
route -- from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to
Singapore -- because of weather conditions,
AirAsia said in a statement.
Flight 8501 went missing at 7:24 a.m. Sunday
(7:24 p.m. Saturday ET) as it flew over the Java
Sea. From flight tracking websites, it looks as
though almost the entire flight path is over the
sea.
"At this time, search and rescue operations are
being conducted under the guidance of the
Indonesian Civil Aviation Authority," AirAsia said.
Of the people on board the Airbus A320-200,
156 are Indonesian, three are South Korean,
one is French, one is Malaysian and one is
Singaporean, the airline said. It had earlier said
157 of those on the plane are Indonesian.
Sixteen children and one infant were among the
passengers, the carrier said.
"Thank you for all your thoughts and prayers.
we must stay strong," AirAsia Chief Executive
Tony Fernandes said on Twitter.
Flight 8501 "was requesting deviation due to en
route weather before communication with the
aircraft was lost," the airline said.
Bad weather was in evidence in the region at
the time, CNN meteorologist Derek Van Dam
said.
"We still had lines of very heavy
thunderstorms" when the plane was
flying, Van Dam said. "But keep in
mind, turbulence doesn't necessarily
bring down airplanes."
But CNN aviation analyst Mary
Schiavo questioned whether weather
would have been a factor in what
happened to the plane.
"Ordinarily, the pilots would get the
updated weather from air traffic
control and, of course, their onboard
radar," said Schiavo, a former
inspector general for the U.S.
Department of Transportation. "So whether
there was (bad) weather in the area would not
be a mystery."
AirAsia is a Malaysia-based airline that is
popular in the region as a budget carrier. It has
about 100 destinations, with subsidiaries in
several Asian countries.
The airline has a "very good" reputation for
safety, CNN aviation correspondent Richard
Quest said.
The loss of contact with the AirAsia plane comes
nearly 10 months after the disappearance of
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which dropped off
radar over Southeast Asia on March 8.
Searchers are yet to find any debris from Flight
370, which officials believe crashed in the
southern Indian Ocean.
U.S. President Barack Obama has been briefed
about the missing AirAsia plane, White House
spokesman Eric Schultz said, adding that U.S.
officials will continue to monitor the situation.


Link: www.cnn.com/2014/12/27/world/asia/airasia-missing-plane/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Some call Makoko the "Venice of Africa".

But while the intricate waterways may replicate the layout of the picturesque Italian city, living conditions could hardly be more contrasting.

Makeshift houses with corrugated iron roofs balance precariously atop stilts. Down below, narrow wooden boats act as a form of aquatic taxi ferrying goods and people around the bustling community.
Striking photos capture Nigerian life
Model turned photographer unmasks women
Backstage at the Lagos Photo Festival

Nobody knows the exact population of this slum district of Lagos but it is estimated to be as high as 100,000. What's sure is that few tourists will come here to take a romantic gondola trip beneath the night sky, moonlight bouncing off the water onto informal shacks.

There is little by the way of a sewer system meaning all sorts of pungent smells are sure to puncture the nostrils. On top of that, law enforcement agencies rarely enter the slum with security left to groups of young men known locally as the "Area Boys."
A lens on home

For photographer Sulayman Afose, however, the muddy waters of Makoko have always been home.
New Lagos district rises from the ocean

The aspiring 24-year-old was born, raised and continues to live in this chaotic floating district. As such, it is one of the subjects he feels most comfortable turning his ever more popular lens on.
Game-changing convention center takes shape
Nigeria's mind-blowing super-stadium

"I started my photography here in Makoko," Afose told CNN when we meet at the plush surrounds of the 2014 Lagos Photo Festival.

"It's really inspiring .... I've been able to get a lot of inspiration in terms of seeing a lot of things in my community," he added.

Afose's career has really begun to take off in recent years. After learning his craft in workshops put on by the African Artists Foundation he went on to study photojournalism at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism.

He's since had photos exhibited at various national arts and photography festivals as well as appearing in numerous international magazines and publications.

International collaboration

Afose has even worked alongside the respected Spanish photographer Cristina De Middel.

"(I am) happy to see some of my work published," he said. "And to see the fact of my name written on the pictures is something very great."

Yet despite the international recognition, its the daily hustle and bustle of Makoko that continues to inspire Afose. He explains that his knowledge of the local customs, attitudes and the people who live there gives him an edge over those who may come from outside to document life in the community.

"To tell the story with this (holding up a camera), you have to know who this guy is (pointing to a man in a photograph)."

Just by looking at him, "is he happy or is he not happy? You have to try to know what it is all about.

"You can't just pick up your camera and start shooting," he said.

Here and now

Then there's the skill vital for any photojournalist to develop, the handy knack of being in the right place at the right time.

Afose was rapidly on the spot when a fire that tore through part of Makoko in 2013. The scenes were horrific but the images Afose captured told the story and brought some of the harsh realities of life in the slum to the outside world. They appeared in numerous publications in print and online.

"The fire was caused by a generator and it burned a lot of houses in the community," Afose explained.

"I had the opportunity to get there at the right time and try document what the scene was all about, what caused the scene (and) what caused the fire outbreak," he added.

It is likely the Makoko fire wouldn't have garnered as much attention in the national and international press without Afose's timely and grabbing images.

The experience has made him even more aware of the importance of having local people tell the story of the community there. So much so that it has inspired him on to his next challenge.

"I want to go further, I want to know more," he said.

When pushed on what this means, he added, "you know, maybe having a university degree (so I can) come back to the community and teach people ... to become what I am today."

Maybe then the outside world will be able to appreciate even more of life in Makoko through the sharp-shooting eyes of its residents.

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Famed boxer Muhammad Ali was
admitted to an undisclosed hospital Saturday
with pneumonia, spokesman Bob Gunnell said.
Ali's treatment prognosis is good, he said.
"Ali, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, is
being treated by his team of doctors and is in
stable condition," Gunnell said in a statement.
The illness was caught early, and Ali is not
expected to be in the hospital long.
"At this time, the Muhammad Ali family
respectfully requests privacy," the statement
said.
Ali, 72, is a former boxing heavyweight
champion and former boxing Olympic gold
medalist.

Famed boxer Muhammad Ali was
admitted to an undisclosed hospital Saturday
with pneumonia, spokesman Bob Gunnell said.
Ali's treatment prognosis is good, he said.
"Ali, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, is
being treated by his team of doctors and is in
stable condition," Gunnell said in a statement.
The illness was caught early, and Ali is not
expected to be in the hospital long.
"At this time, the Muhammad Ali family
respectfully requests privacy," the statement
said.
Ali, 72, is a former boxing heavyweight
champion and former boxing Olympic gold
medalist.

A young mother is in intensive care after having
a rare but serious reaction to a friend's
prescription antibiotics that caused her to
"burn" from the inside out.
Yassmeen Castanada, 19, wasn't feeling well on
Thanksgiving, so she took a pill that her friend
had left over from a previous illness. Soon,
Castanada's eyes, nose and throat began to
burn, and she was rushed to the emergency
room, her mother, Laura Corona, told ABC
News.
Her body erupted in blisters over the next few
days, Corona said. She had to be sedated and
placed on a ventilator.
"Her face changed within four days," Corona
told ABC News. "I would wipe her face and all
the skin was just falling off."
Doctors diagnosed Castanada with Stevens-
Johnson syndrome , a rare but serious drug
reaction that can occur even when drugs are
taken as prescribed by a doctor, said Dr. Joshua
Zeichner, a dermatology professor at the Mount
Sinai Hospital in Manhattan who was not
involved in treating Castanada.
"You're not truly burned, but what happens is
you have compromised the skin barrier
function," Zeichner said.

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Police in Thailand say an American
tried to ship infant body parts to the United
States, but the delivery was stopped after a call
from the shipping company.
The bizarre discovery is not the first time infant
remains have been found in Thailand. In 2010,
more than 2,000 illegally aborted fetuses were
recovered at a Buddhist temple in Bangkok.
Thai police say they received a phone call from a
DHL shipping office in Pathum Thani province,
on the outskirts of Bangkok, on Saturday. Police
say workers there discovered the body parts
inside parcel boxes as they were scanning
shipments for delivery. The boxes contained an
infant skull, internal organs and a few pieces of
human skin.




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Another patient is being tested in the
United States for possible Ebola exposure -- this
time, in California.
The unidentified patient is being isolated in a
"specially equipped negative pressure room" at
the Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento
Medical Center.
Trained staff are using protective equipment,
coordinated with infectious disease specialists,
to provide care for the patient, said Dr. Stephen
M. Parodi, director of hospital operations at
Kaiser Permanente Northern California, in a
statement.
The patient is considered "low-risk" and tests are
being conducted out of "an abundance of
caution," the California Department of Public
Health said. There are currently no confirmed
cases of Ebola in the state, the agency said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
will be testing the patient's blood samples to
determine whether the Ebola virus is present.
All necessary precautions are being taken to
safeguard other patients and staff, the hospital
said.
No further information about the
patient has been released.

While their peers were playing video
games or panicking about the prom, a group of
young whiz kids has been prioritizing medical
innovation.
From Maryland to Dubai, these social-minded
prodigies are winning prizes at international
science fairs, developing medical innovations
and picking up advanced degrees in hopes of
saving lives.
Here are eight of the most impressive kids from
around working towards a healthier tomorrow.

Joshua Meier, 18, New Jersey
Stem cells are valued for their ability to develop
into specialized cells, and have the potential to
treat Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injury and
other conditions. But artificially generated stem
cells have short lifespans that limit their medical
usefulness.
Joshua Meier's award-winning
research , which started off as a class
project when he was just 14,
identified the genes linked to this cell
aging process. Meier, who will begin
studying biology and computer
science at Harvard this fall, hopes
that his research can be applied to
other cells, and eventually lead to real-world
solutions, like treating cancer.
"Cancer is a disease where cells keep growing
and growing and growing," Meier says. "But if
we age cancer and stop its growth, then that's a
potential treatment."

Adeeb Alblooshi, 10, Dubai, United Arab
Emirates
It was a trip to the beach that sparked Adeeb
Alblooshi's inventing career. When his father --
who had suffered from polio -- could not go
swimming because of his prosthetic leg, Adeeb,
then six, made him a waterproof alternative
using an enhanced medical wax coating. Soon
after, he created a small vibrating robot to help
his mother clean small spaces. It wasn't long
before the media, and subsequently the Dubai
government, came calling.
With the government's supervision and funding,
he's come up with five more inventions since
then, including a seat belt that monitors a
passenger's heart rate and alerts the authorities
when it's too high or low.
Since April, he's been on an international
scientific tour with the Emirates Institution for
Advanced Science and Technology, which has
had him attending academic conferences,
meeting with researchers, and even attending
space camp at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center
in Alabama.
"I've learned a lot, but most importantly, I'm
having fun while doing it," he says.


Samantha and Michelle Marquez, 18
and 15, Virginia
For Samantha and Michelle Marquez,
science is a family affair. The
daughters of a chemist and a
chemical engineer, the two were
always encouraged to ask questions
and hunt down answers.
A school project when she was in seventh grade
led Samantha to create "celloidosomes," three-
dimensional structures built out of living cells,
which act as a container for other particles. She
suggests that these capsule-like structures could
be used for organ repair and as innovative way
to deliver drugs to the body, but anticipates that
there could other applications too.
"I like to think that the celloidosomes is really
just one very small pebble in the beach," she
says, "a very small grain of sand in the beach
that's going to be the movement towards
bottom-up engineering for medicine."
Michelle, on the other hand, decided to explore
elements that couldn't be touched: music and
emotions. Her research analyzed brain activity
and found that highly complex sounds -- or
chaotic noise -- triggered the part of the brain
associated with negative emotions, while low-
complexity music triggered the part of the brain
associated with positive emotions.
Both sisters were recognized at the prestigious
Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
(Intel ISEF), but there's little sibling rivalry at
play.
"I think it's been really great to see Michelle
blossoming into the young woman, the young
scientist that she is," Samantha says. "I think
she's kind of paving her own journey."

Sandile Kubheka, 21, Newcastle,
South Africa
While others his age were just
getting into the swing of university
life, Sandile Kubheka, then 20, had
become South Africa's youngest
doctor, four years ahead of
schedule.
Since then, Kubheka, now 21, has been honored
with a slew of awards for his community work
and medical achievements, and was nominated
for an MTV Africa Music Award for leadership.
These awards acknowledge not just his obvious
precocity, but the time he's put in outside of
the classroom, especially when he was a
student. On weekends, he was helping under-
serviced communities, taking care of patients at
a student-run clinic; during his December
holidays, he was volunteering in the labs of
rural hospitals, to serve the community and
hone his own skills.
These days, he's had to cut back. He spends
most waking hours completing an intensive two-
year internship at Grey's Hospital in
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, but he finds time
to act as an ambassador for the South African
National Blood Service, and set up a trust fund
to help youth in developing nations and rural
regions get into engineering and medicine.
"Now that I've started working, it's harder to
balance that," he says laughing. "But as soon as
I've got that balance, I want to get back to the
community."


Tony Hansberry, 20, Jacksonville,
Florida
Tony Hansberry was likely the only
14-year-old boy making a difference
in gynaecology. Attending a high
school with a program geared
towards medicine gave Hansberry the
chance to intern at the nearby UF Health Shands
Hospital in Gainesville, Florida. There, he was
challenged to improve how the vaginal cuff (the
top of the vagina) is sutured after a
hysterectomy. Typically, the cuff is sewn
together with a horizontal stitch to decrease the
risk of infection after surgery, but Hansberry
suggested that a vertical stitch might be faster.
When demonstrating his method on
a mannequin, he was able to suture
the area three times faster than the
traditional method. It proved so
much more effective that the
supervising doctor still uses his
method today, having nicknamed it
the "Hansberry Stich."
Now 20, Hansberry is studying
chemistry at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical
University. He hopes to become a surgeon
someday, and make a difference in the lives of
others.
"That's what I love about the idea of medicine,"
he says. "The fact that you can change so many
lives with just your hands."


Jack Andraka, 17, Maryland
Jack Andraka was aged just 14 when he started
developing an easy early-detection test for
pancreatic cancer. By the end of the school year,
he succeeded.
The test, developed under the guidance of a
Johns Hopkins professor, takes just minutes to
complete, and Andraka claims it is faster,
cheaper, and more sensitive than the current
medical standard.
Though his invention has yet to undergo peer-
review or rigorous testing, it earned Andraka not
only the $75,000 grand prize at the Intel ISEF in
2012, but also the attention of every major
news organization, frequent speaking gigs (check
out his TEDTalk here ), and a seat on "The
Colbert Report." It seems the whole world is
waiting to see what he does next.


Andrew Almazán Anaya, 19, Mexico
City, Mexico
Andrew Almazán Anaya is best
known for becoming a qualified
psychologist at 16, but in his eyes,
he still has a lot to accomplish.
"[I studied] not only because I
wanted to learn more, or I liked the
subject -- I have to make this
knowledge useful for future," says
Almazán Anaya, who is also an MD.
This is why, for the last five years, he's been
part of a team trying to perfect islet cell
transplantation in diabetics -- working to
prevent the cells from being rejected by a
recipient's immune system.
While the team awaits the OK to move from
testing on mice to larger animals, Almazán
Anaya has more time to dedicate to "Centro de
Atención al Talento" (the Talent Attention
Center), a group that pushes for the early
identification and support of gifted children,
where he serves as head of psychological
research. He hopes his internationally
recognized work will spread awareness about
gifted kids, and equip them to make the most of
their potential, as he has.[b]While their peers were playing video
games or panicking about the prom, a group of
young whiz kids has been prioritizing medical
innovation.
From Maryland to Dubai, these social-minded
prodigies are winning prizes at international
science fairs, developing medical innovations
and picking up advanced degrees in hopes of
saving lives.
Here are eight of the most impressive kids from
around working towards a healthier tomorrow.

Joshua Meier, 18, New Jersey
Stem cells are valued for their ability to develop
into specialized cells, and have the potential to
treat Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injury and
other conditions. But artificially generated stem
cells have short lifespans that limit their medical
usefulness.
Joshua Meier's award-winning
research , which started off as a class
project when he was just 14,
identified the genes linked to this cell
aging process. Meier, who will begin
studying biology and computer
science at Harvard this fall, hopes
that his research can be applied to
other cells, and eventually lead to real-world
solutions, like treating cancer.
"Cancer is a disease where cells keep growing
and growing and growing," Meier says. "But if
we age cancer and stop its growth, then that's a
potential treatment."

Adeeb Alblooshi, 10, Dubai, United Arab
Emirates
It was a trip to the beach that sparked Adeeb
Alblooshi's inventing career. When his father --
who had suffered from polio -- could not go
swimming because of his prosthetic leg, Adeeb,
then six, made him a waterproof alternative
using an enhanced medical wax coating. Soon
after, he created a small vibrating robot to help
his mother clean small spaces. It wasn't long
before the media, and subsequently the Dubai
government, came calling.
With the government's supervision and funding,
he's come up with five more inventions since
then, including a seat belt that monitors a
passenger's heart rate and alerts the authorities
when it's too high or low.
Since April

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List of airlines disaster that have occured in the
past few months:

Sepahan Air 5915 - 48 Dead
Malaysia Airlines 17 - 298 Dead
Malaysia Airlines 350 - 227 Dead
Air Algérie 5017- 116 Dead
TransAsia 72 - 58 Dead
Total Dead: 747!!

Coincidence? Or is there something going on?
Is flying safe anymore?

A passenger plane crashed in
Tehran on Sunday, killing all 48 people on
board, official news agencies in Iran reported.
The Antonov-140 propeller plane went down
shortly after leaving the runway at Mehrabad
International Airport after an engine failed, FARS
semiofficial news agency reported.
The crash also injured people on the ground,
including employees at a glass factory, FARS
said.
Some of the injured suffered severe burns,
Tasnimnews reported.
A witness told FARS that the tail of the plane fell
from the sky first, while the front of the plane
crashed farther away.
Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 was carrying 40
passengers and a crew of eight when it went
down, according to official news reports.
Rescue workers were still working Sunday
afternoon to remove bodies from the wreckage,
Tasnimnews said.

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A hundred years ago on this day, on
August 8th, 1914, the British HMS Asteria and
Pegasus protected cruisers bombed Dar-es-
Salaam, then the capital of German East Africa,
bringing the European so-called "war to end all
wars" to the eastern African shores. The day
before, Anglo-French forces constituted of
Ghanaian, Nigerian, Sierra Leonean, Gambian
and Beninese troops had invaded German
Togoland in West Africa.
Among World War I campaigns, the East African
one was the longest of all: as the armistice was
being signed in Europe on November, 11th
1918, the last of the German forces were still
fighting their British counterparts. Indeed the
general who led them only surrendered two
weeks later, on November, 25th 1918.
But who knows any of this, whether
in America, in Europe or indeed in
Africa? As the world commemorates
the Centenary of the Great War, the
African side of this story remains a
footnote, despite huge losses of
human lives and major consequences
for the future of the African
continent.
The East Africa campaign was the opposite of
the European war of trenches: it was about
mobility, short raids and long treks on foot. The
German Schutztruppe, white German
commanders and black African soldiers called
askaris, never exceeded 25,000 men. The British
however assembled 150,000 troops: South
Africans and Indians at first, joined by Kenyans
and Nigerians later on.
But none of these soldiers would
ever have survived, let alone be able
to fight, without the unmentioned
exploitation of porters. For every one
soldier, German and British troops
used four "native carriers," including
women and children, who howled
food supplies, arms and even
artillery; cooked, scrubbed and
tended to their needs; and died of
exhaustion, malnutrition and disease.
Of the 105,000 deaths among British
forces during the East Africa
campaign, 90% were porters. 45,000
among the dead were from British
East Africa (Kenya) alone.
General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the German
commander, is often lauded for his military
genius, outwitting the British during four years
with barely a fifth of their numbers. Some of
the tales written are nothing short of David vs.
Goliath. But von Lettow-Vorbeck had been
ordered not to engage by Berlin. As far as I am
concerned, his actions would be better
described as a war-mongering megalomaniac
effort by a military commander responsible for
the callous deaths of 300,000 porters, the
looting of hundreds of villages and the
devastation of years of crops. If the death toll
had been of German lives, would he have been
as celebrated in the scrolls of History?
It is unclear that askaris actually volunteered to
be part of the Schutztruppe, considering just a
decade earlier, in 1905, the Germans had
violently suppressed one of the largest uprisings
against colonial rule on the African continent,
the Maji Maji rebellion. That same year,
Germans carried out the first genocide of the
century against the Herero in German South
West Africa (Namibia). Terror, subjugation and
inhumane practice ruled in the German colonies,
and this is how it should be remembered.
All told, two million African soldiers, workers and
porters were directly involved in World War I.
Though never fully acknowledged, Europe's
Great war was a war of colonials and a colonial
theater of war. As I reflect on this day, a public
holiday (Nane Nane) for farmers in Tanzania, I
remember a hundred years ago 750,000 square
miles of land was inundated and destroyed, I
remember the farmers who were forcefully
dragged into this as porters. I remember
Africans who fought other Africans for reasons
unknown to them.
The erasure of Africa's involvement in World
War I, including the ongoing centenary
commemorations, painstakingly reminds us that,
once again, it is for us to make sure history is
told in full. My commitment to The World War I
in Africa Project finds its roots in this necessity:
history should be unearthed and a critical lens
applied, especially by us Africans.
What happened in Africa should not stay in
Africa.
link: edition.cnn.com/2014/08/08/world/africa/world-war-in-africa/index.html?hpt=iaf_t4

-- A nurse in Nigeria. A businessman in
Saudi Arabia. A Spanish priest in Liberia.
With the World Health Organization announcing
Wednesday that 932 deaths had been reported
or confirmed as a result of Ebola hemorrhagic
fever, Saudi Arabia joined the list of countries
with suspected cases.
"This is the biggest and most complex Ebola
outbreak in history," Dr. Tom Frieden, director
of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, said.
Nearly all of those deaths have been in Liberia,
Sierra Leone and Guinea, where more than
1,700 cases have been reported, according to
WHO. The agency said 108 new cases were
reported between Saturday and Monday in
those countries and Nigeria.
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has
declared a state of emergency for 90 days
because of the deadly outbreak, her office
announced Wednesday.
"The scope and scale of the
epidemic, the virulence and
deadliness of the virus now exceed
the capacity and statutory
responsibility of any one government
agency or ministry," she said in a
written statement. "The government
and people of Liberia require
extraordinary measures for the very
survival of our state and for the
protection of the lives of our people."
She said Ebola is a "clear and present
danger."
Concerns about the spread of the
deadly virus escalated with Saudi
Arabia reporting that a man died,
apparently of the virus, after a trip to
Sierra Leone, and Nigeria reported
that a nurse died after treating
someone believed to have contracted
Ebola in Liberia.
WHO did not immediately confirm
the deaths, and its count of Ebola cases does
not include the two.
The Saudi man died Wednesday at a specialized
hospital in Jeddah, the Saudi Ministry of Health
said.
He had been in intensive care since late Monday
"after exhibiting symptoms of viral hemorrhagic
fever following a business trip to Sierra Leone,"
the ministry said in a statement.
The nurse in Nigeria had helped care for Patrick
Sawyer, a Liberian-American man, who died in
Nigeria after traveling there from Liberia,
Nigeria's Ministry of Health said Wednesday.

The Intercept article focuses on the
growth in U.S. government databases
of known or suspected terrorist
names during the Obama
administration.
The article cites documents prepared
by the National Counterterrorism
Center dated August 2013, which is
after Snowden left the United States
to avoid criminal charges.
Greenwald has suggested there was
another leaker. In July, he said on
Twitter "it seems clear at this point"
that there was another.
Government officials have been
investigating to find out that identity.
In a February interview with CNN's
Reliable Sources, Greenwald said: "I
definitely think it's fair to say that
there are people who have been
inspired by Edward Snowden's
courage and by the great good and
virtue that it has achieved."
He added, "I have no doubt there
will be other sources inside the
government who see extreme
wrongdoing who are inspired by
Edward Snowden."
It's not yet clear how many
documents the new leaker has shared and how
much damage it may cause.
So far, the documents shared by the new leaker
are labeled "Secret" and "NOFORN," which
means it isn't to be shared with foreign
government.
That's a lower level of classification than most of
the documents leaked by Snowden.

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The global concern over the spread of
the virus has reached Saudi Arabia,
where a man is in critical condition
after recently returning from Sierra
Leone.
The 40-year-old man has symptoms
of a viral hemorrhagic fever, the
Saudi Health Ministry said Tuesday.
The source of his infection is
unknown, but Ebola cannot be ruled
out, the ministry said.

A Nigerian doctor has been
diagnosed with Ebola nearly three weeks after a
Liberian-American man with Ebola died after
traveling to Lagos, Nigerian officials said
Monday.
Nigerian Minister of Health Onyebuchi Chukwu
told reporters that the infected physician had
been treating Patrick Sawyer, a top government
official in the Liberian Ministry of Finance who
died of Ebola in a Nigerian hospital July 20.
Eight other people are being quarantined and
three are awaiting Ebola test results, the health
minister said.
Read more about Patrick Sawyer's death
Meanwhile, the World Health
Organization reports an outbreak of
the virus in Liberia, Sierra Leone,
Guinea and Nigeria is believed to
have infected 1,440 people and killed
more than 826 this year.