The Nigerian government says a doctor who treated a Liberian Ebola patient in Lagos has himself contracted the disease. Its the second confirmed Ebola case in Africas most populous country. The Liberian became ill on a plane to Nigeria and was immediately taken to hospital on arrival in Lagos, where he died. The Nigerian health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu says a further eight people who came into contact with the passenger have been placed in quarantine. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa this year is the worst ever, having killed more than eight-hundred people in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. Source: BBC Africa
Posted on: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 16:33:29 +0000
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