The Federal Government has confirmed 11
cases of Ebola, after a doctor who treated the
Liberian man who brought the disease to
Lagos fell ill.
The Health Minister, Professor Onyebuchi
Chukwu, told a news conference in Abuja on
Thursday that a medical doctor who had primary
contact with the late Patrick Sawyer has been
confirmed to have contracted the Ebola virus
disease.
A member of staff of West African regional
economic body, ECOWAS, this week became the
third person in Nigeria to die of the disease.
“Eight (others) are still alive, more than half of
them are doing very well and actually showing
signs of recovery … under treatment,” Prof
Chukwu said.
The Health Minister added that 15 out of the 21
persons under surveillance for Ebola virus in
Enugu State, after a nurse who ignored
surveillance restrictions fled Lagos to Enugu State,
have been cleared and freed by the Ministry of
Health.
According to Nigeria’s Minister of Health,
Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, only six out of the
21 earlier placed on surveillance actually had
contact with the nurse.
The six, who had contact with the nurse, are now
under surveillance with restrictions to movements
for 21 days, to see if any would develop the
symptoms for the virus.
In all, Nigeria now has 169 persons who had
secondary contacts with those being quarantined
for developing symptoms of the Ebola virus.
The World Health Organization has called this
Ebola outbreak, whose worst affected countries
include Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, an
international emergency. It has killed around 55
to 60 percent of those who have contracted the
disease.
Meanwhile, the Straits Times , a Singapore based
newspaper, said on Thursday that a Nigerian
woman sent to a Singapore hospital isolation unit
does not have Ebola as initially suspected.
The Chief Executive of the government hospital
where the woman was sent, Philip Choo, said that
it was a false alarm and the woman had been
discharged.
The woman, in her 50s, was believed to have
flown into Singapore recently and arrived at a
hospital emergency department with a fever.
According to the World Health Organisation, the
world’s worst outbreak of Ebola has claimed the
lives of 1,069 people and there are 1,975
probable and suspected cases, the vast majority
in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
There have been no confirmed cases in Asia.


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