Senior doctor who treated Nigeria’s first Ebola patient dies of the disease
A senior doctor who treated Nigeria's first Ebola patient has died, taking the death toll in Africa's most populous country to five, Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said.
A senior doctor who treated Nigeria's first Ebola patient has died, taking the death toll in Africa's most populous country to five, Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said.
The disease arrived in Nigeria via Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, 40, a Liberian finance ministry consultant who died in a Lagos hospital on July 25, five days after arriving at the city's airport visibly unwell on a flight from the Liberian capital, Monrovia. Nigeria's other fatalities have all been medical workers who treated Sawyer.
The World Health Organisation said on Tuesday that there were 15 cases of the virus in Nigeria, all in Lagos, which is sub-Saharan Africa's biggest city with more than 20 million people.
The global death toll from Ebola stands at 1,230, with the bulk of cases in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. In Liberia, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf imposed a nighttime curfew yesterday and quarantined two affected neighbourhoods.
