Liberian man who was hospitalized in Nigerias biggest city, Lagos, with the Ebola virus has died, Nigerian Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said. The patient was subjected to thorough medical tests ... which confirmed he had the Ebola virus, Chukwu said Friday. The case has raised fears that the virus could spread beyond the three countries at the center of what health officials say is the deadliest ever Ebola outbreak and into Africas most populous nation, Nigeria. Lagos has more than 20 million residents. As of July 20, some 1,093 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia are thought to have been infected by Ebola since its symptoms were first observed four months ago, according to the World Health Organization. Testing confirmed the Ebola virus in 786 of those cases, of whom 442 died. Of the 1,093 confirmed, probable and suspected cases, 660 people have died. The man hospitalized in Lagos was a 40-year-old Liberian working for a West African organization in Monrovia, Liberia, according to the Lagos State Ministry of Health. He arrived at Lagos airport on Sunday and was isolated in a local hospital after showing symptoms associated with the virus. He told officials that he had no direct contact with anyone with the virus nor attended the burial of anyone who died of Ebola. The Lagos State Ministry of Health had said Thursday that the patients condition is stable and is in recovery and that the results of testing for Ebola infection were still pending in his case. Infection control measures were in place in the hospital, officials said. Doctor infected Confirmation of the death in Lagos followed news that a doctor who has played a key role in fighting the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone is infected with the disease , according to that countrys Ministry of Health. Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan is being treated by the French aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres -- also known as Doctors Without Borders -- in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, agency spokesman Tim Shenk said. Before falling ill, Khan had been overseeing Ebola treatment and isolation units at Kenema Government Hospital, about 185 miles east of the capital Freetown. Ebola typically kills 90% of those infected, but the death rate in this outbreak has dropped to roughly 60% thanks to early treatment. What is Ebola, and why does it kill? Spread by bodily fluids Officials believe that the Ebola outbreak has taken such a strong hold in West Africa due to the proximity of the jungle -- where the virus originated -- to Conakry, Guinea, which has a population of 2 million. Because symptoms dont immediately appear, the virus can easily spread as people travel around the region. Once the virus takes hold, many die in an average of 10 days as the blood fails to clot and hemorrhaging occurs. The disease isnt contagious until symptoms appear. Symptoms include fever, headache and fatigue. At that point, the Ebola virus is spread via bodily fluids. Get the fast facts on Ebola Health workers are at especially high risk, since they are in close contact with infected people and their bodily fluids. Adding to the danger, in the initial stages of infection doctors may mistake an Ebola infection for another, milder illness. Journalist Aminu Abubakar in Nigeria contributed to this report. Load more comments 186 Comments CNN Login d Sort by Best Share ⤤ • Reply • ASTROlopithecus • 8 hours ago I have huge admiration for the health workers who are risking their very lives to help combat this outbreak. The suffering that Ebola victims must endure is heartbreaking. This disease is a nightmare. 102 △ ▽ • Reply • rich • 3 hours ago > ASTROlopithecus Thank you to all of the courageous health care workers that are on the front lines of this. Travel restrictions need to be put in place now! They have waited too long already. This may not spread as easily as the flu or the cold, but this is a nasty little bug and is nothing to take lightly just because it is only contagious after the symptoms appear. A deadly disease that show symptoms similar to the flu is a dangerous thing. How many sweaty people have you sat next to in the last week? Or brushed up against in a crowded subway or on a bus? 8 △ ▽ • Reply • Against_ESL • 2 hours ago > rich You want to shut the country down for a month? 1 △ ▽ • Reply • rich • an hour ago > Against_ESL Not shut down the entire country, but travel out of some regions yes, if it were possible. At the bare minimum the airports and ports in around the regions that have had any cases, at least not without some serious screening and wait times for travel. This should have happened months ago in some form. I think of something simple like a hypothetical African businessman who decided to go see his grandparents who live in a remote village and are very traditional, Its hot there, everybody sweats. After a few days he drives back to where ever Africa where he works for an international company... You can fill in the rest if you like. I guess this guy could be the hypothetical businessman We should definitely not be in panic mode, but sure as heck should be a lot more cautious and observant. This is not something to be taken lightly 1 △ ▽ • Reply • Against_ESL • an hour ago > rich Most of the people in that area dont understand germ theory. ▽ • Reply • Evolved One • 8 hours ago This is nothing to joke about. Once confined mostly to rural areas we could ignore this disease but once you have an urban population to contend with it comes almost impossible to contain. It is time to step up containment procedures. It is time to bring more experts into this region and to hell with offending stupid local sensibilities that have superstition and xenophobia as their basis. 40 △ ▽ • Reply • Time Warper • 6 hours ago > Evolved One Its time to stop letting people to go Africa then come back to America. Thats what time it is. 34 △ ▽ • Reply • imjustsaying • 5 hours ago > Time Warper You mean like Haliburton, Shell, ConocoPhillips, and Exxon workers from America? 23 △ ▽ • Reply • ogmi • 3 minutes ago > imjustsaying NO because those companies employ local African staff. SHELL even pays the HIV medication and programmes for its endemically-infected Nigerian personnel in that sinkhole nation. ▽ • Reply • cedaly1968 • 6 hours ago > Time Warper What about Europeans visiting Africa then America? Or people from Asian countries, or Canada? Ebola wont discriminate once it gets into a general populace. 16 △ ▽ • Reply • ogmi • 2 minutes ago > cedaly1968 Ebola is like HIV, It has aquired human rights to be exported worldwide, because it is a disease carried by a race-industry favoured species. ▽ • Reply • dondiego • 2 hours ago > cedaly1968 Shame on you. Time Warper had a simple solution and you just had to ruin it. ▽ • Reply • TheLostSurveyor • 5 hours ago > Time Warper Im not sure that its possible. But you might be able to make a more ridiculous comment it you really try. 10 △ ▽ • Reply • GuyInTampa1 • 3 hours ago > Time Warper Please dont speak you make typical americans look dumb 6 △ ▽ • Reply • graduategamers • 5 hours ago > Time Warper Either way people like you will just get cancer and die. It is not about Americans dying its about saving any human life that might be at risk of getting this disease. 9 △ ▽ • Reply • JackStraw63 • 4 hours ago > Time Warper Something about you is most assuredly warped. Five will get you ten that you identify yourself as a Christian. 4 △ ▽ • Reply • Miss.Anne Thropee • 4 hours ago > Time Warper well...perhaps a more suitable, and less dramatic (which equals panic) approach, like some type of screening, and travel advisories is all that is going to happen, but indeed, they should begin to really start dealing with it now. 2 △ ▽ • Reply • Derek Kingston • 6 hours ago > Evolved One Ah the joys of living in a globalized world. All it takes is one person to get on a flight and get to NYC during the incubation stage and wham possible global pandemic. 18 △ ▽ • Reply • Social Justice • 4 hours ago > Derek Kingston That would be awesome. Remember, God is Love! Have some Ebola with that love. 4 △ ▽ • Reply • Teachinuboutlawyers • 4 hours ago > Evolved One Ebola would be 1000x more of a threat if it were airborne, however, since it can only spread through bodily fluids, it is less of a worry in my mind. 4 △ ▽ • Reply • Boater39 • 2 hours ago > Teachinuboutlawyers Ever heard of mutations? Its probably only a matter of time... 2 △ ▽ • Reply • narutogrey • 3 hours ago > Teachinuboutlawyers Ebola can spread through sweat, I.e. if you touch an infected person with your skin and absorbed their sweat. It can also be transmitted through wet coughs (I.e. coughs where tiny saliva or mucus particles become airborne). 2 △ ▽ • Reply • curmudgeon2104 • 7 hours ago Some countries quarantine animals, including house pets, for months before letting them into the country. During the last swine flu outbreak, countries took your temperature at the landing gate and put you in quarantine if you showed signs of illness. Why do we in the United States allow people from countries with high risk for deadly infectious diseases walk right in without any medical screening or follow up? 25 △ ▽ • Reply • graduategamers • 5 hours ago > curmudgeon2104 Where did you get the facts that say America doesnt have regulations for that? Or do you want a report of every screened foreigner entering America delivered at your office? 6 △ ▽ • Reply • curmudgeon2104 • 5 hours ago > graduategamers Why do you think we do? Ive passed through customs returning to the United States many times. Citizens one line, foreign passports in another. Keep the lines moving, theres another plane coming right behind. Im not even sure that they check foreigners immunization records. They dont check Americans - leaving or returning - and Ive been to some places that require some pretty exotic vaccinations. 11 △ ▽ • Reply • Boater39 • 2 hours ago > graduategamers They dont do a lot of checking... If youve even been through customs, you know that. They are more concerned that you may be bringing in some item without paying the proper import taxes than they are, trying to prevent the spread of an epidemic. 5 △ ▽ • Reply • American1 • 3 hours ago > curmudgeon2104 I remember when Europeans first started arriving in the New World. They brought Small Pox and other infectious diseases that almost wiped out the population of Native Americans. I dont believe any European was quarantined back then. But what did I know. Sometimes the hypocrisy from idiots like you can be sickening. 1 △ ▽ • Reply • Carla Hurst-Chandler • 6 hours ago And still they fail to differentiate for people the term bodily fluids for people. Since HIV/AIDS people have considered bodily fluids exclusive to blood products. With the Ebola virus the pathogen is found in all secretions including mucus, saliva, tears, urine, feces and sweat as well as blood. This oversight is costing lives and contributing to the spread. 34 △ ▽ • Reply • rich • 3 hours ago > Carla Hurst-Chandler Interesting little tid bit from another article about this. The man died after arriving at Lagos airport on Tuesday and also The Liberian man collapsed on arrival in Lagos last Sunday. He was taken from the airport to hospital, where he was put in quarantine. This man traveled while showing symptoms if he collapsed shortly after getting off the plane. Then he was moved to the hospital, all the while the people transporting him probably had no clue what they were dealing with. I am sure the people on the plane or in the terminal did not. 11 △ ▽ • Reply • nobody • an hour ago > rich Not only that but the man said he had no known contact with anyone infected nor had he attended any funerals of an Ebola victim. 2 △ ▽ • Reply • Boater39 • 2 hours ago > rich Yep, and that is how things like this spread. Now, if Ebola mutates and becomes airborne.... We might not even get the chance to blow up the place with n u k e s like many of us have predicted.... Been the subject of several movies. 2 △ ▽ • Reply • Reason • 5 hours ago Boko Haram meet Ebola. 14 △ ▽ • Reply • bob saget • 8 hours ago i shall now bathe in hand sanitizer, put on my tyvek suit, and hide in my basement with my mountain house food. 12 △ ▽ • Reply • Pike Juan • 5 hours ago > bob saget That seem to work well for Howard Hughes. 7 △ ▽ • Reply • Freddie777 • 6 hours ago > bob saget And live off of bush meat. Wait, thats what started this.. 4 △ ▽ • Reply • Social Justice • 4 hours ago > Freddie777 In suburbia, bushmeat would be the neighbors dog. 4 △ ▽ • Reply • carl • 7 hours ago A frightening disease being combated by heroic people. 16 △ ▽ • Reply • mordrud • 5 hours ago Anyone want to bet that Al Queda is already in West Africa looking for a patient to fly into the states? I think Doomsday Preppers is going from a quirky look at the crazies to a survival how-to documentary. 7 △ ▽ • Reply • TheLostSurveyor • 5 hours ago > mordrud That would be a bit problematic. 1) You cant tell someone has it till they show symptoms. 2) Once they show symptoms they die VERY quickly. 3) They are highly contagious at this point so whomever is collecting it will probably die shortly thereafter. 3 △ ▽ • Reply • mordrud • 5 hours ago > TheLostSurveyor I thought about that too, but you are dealing wth people willing to blow themselves up so a more likely scenario I guess is finding someone who is sick, exposing themselves and then boarding a plane. Where theres a will (and a nutjob), theres a way. 3 △ ▽ • Reply • TheLostSurveyor • 5 hours ago > mordrud Nice. That is one comment I would have kept to myself. Im sure they can think of it on their own. But that is no reason to give them ideas. 4 △ ▽ • Reply • carre1 • 4 hours ago > TheLostSurveyor This idea has been well published and is a credible threat already. One thing about terrorists is that they seem quite able to come up with new methods of terrorism. Too bad they cant put their minds to actually helping people. 2 △ ▽ • Reply • KTinME • 40 minutes ago > carre1 Well, that seems to be the way of the world, doesnt it? We are like that here in America too. Look at all the cries to send back children who come seeking asylum and the even louder cries about the money spent on food stamps and welfare. Nobody wants to help anybody anymore. ▽ • Reply • mordrud • 5 hours ago > TheLostSurveyor True, maybe I should start working for the Washington Post. They love to point out all the weak points in our infrastructure and publish articles about them. 2 △ ▽ • Reply • JackStraw63 • 4 hours ago > mordrud So you were ranting about Tom Clancys Executive Orders when it was published in 1996, right? 4 △ ▽ • Reply • KTinME • 42 minutes ago > mordrud Its true, any determined crazy person on a mission will find a way to do what he sets out to do. This is the argument 2nd Amendment defenders use when a terrible shooting occurs. You cant stop crazy, so dont even try. ▽ • Reply • LeglizHemp • 5 hours ago > TheLostSurveyor its a good thing no one has invented a way to transport blood 1 △ ▽ • Reply • gehazi • 5 hours ago > mordrud thats just wishful thinking-- preppers are a joke and I will hunt them in an apocalypse for supplies. 3 △ ▽ • Reply • ThatStingIsTheTruth • 3 hours ago > gehazi For about 10 minutes until one puts a bullet through your head. 6 △ ▽ • Reply • gehazi • 3 hours ago > ThatStingIsTheTruth that is what you think, the power of the gun goes both ways my friend, just because you have one does not make you magically immune to the bullets coming out of mine. preppers live in delusion-- when the collapse comes there is no escape. if you have something to lose you will lose it. 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