Tuesday, 5 August 2014

Lagos Has Eight Suspected Cases Of Ebola - Official

Ebola Virus
Lagos state government,on Tuesday,5th August announced that there are eight suspected cases of Ebola in the state.

Lagos State Commissioner for Health,Jide Idris confirmed this and also said that all the eight victims came in contact with late Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian who died of the disease last month.

The government has stepped up its effort to trace all those that came in contact with the Liberian.

The second confirmed case of infection after Mr Sawyer was a doctor at a Lagos private hospital. The doctor treated the Liberian after he fell ill at the Murtala Muhammed Airport on his way to attend an ECOWAS conference in Calabar.

The Nigerian Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, had on Monday confirmed that the doctor was down with the virus, which has killed over 800 people in three West African countries.

The federal and state governments have said they have adopted strategies to identify and check the possible spread of the deadly virus in Nigeria.

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