Federal government on Wednesday established 5 fresh cases of Ebola in Lagos an additional death from the infection, extending the entire wide range of viruses in sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest metropolis to 7.
Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, the Health Minister asserted among the list of healthcare workers (nurse) that treated the late Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer, whom kicked the bucket as a result of Ebola infection in Lagos on July 25, has passed away of the same disease.
“Nigeria has at the moment recorded 7 confirmed cases of Ebola Infections Issues (EVB)” health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu reported.
Those who have passed on include the “index patient,” a Liberian who introduced virus to Lagos on July 20, and a health care professional who helped him, the minister added.
“All the Nigerians identified as having EBV were primary contacts” of Patrick Sawyer, a guy that worked for Liberia’s finance department and contracted the virus from his sibling, Chukwu pronounced.
Patrick Sawyer journeyed to Nigeria, Africa’s most populated country, for a conference of west African officials.
Obviously sick upon entrance at the airport terminal in Lagos, officers said he was straight away transferred to the First Consultants medical center in the upmarket Ikoyi neighbourhood.
He passed away in quarantine on July 25 and the hospital has since been shut down.
The five Ebola patients are receiving treatment in an solitude quarter in Lagos, the minister informed reporters.
Since bursting out recently, the tropical infection has taken approximately 900 lives and basically infected a lot more than 1,603 people across west Africa. Another cases were being announced in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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