A Nigerian nurse who contracted Ebola after treating an American who died there last month, the nurse who had been battling with the dreaded Ebola virus after she had contact with the late Liberian man, Patrick Sawyer, has died in Lagos.
Nigerian Health Minister, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, confirmed that she passed on Tuesday.
DailyPost has gathered that 8 more cases have been recorded in the state and the government is making effort to curtail the spread of the virus.
The nurse treated Patrick Sawyer, who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia, then collapsed after he got off a plane to Nigeria and died July 25. Sawyer, 40, was a naturalized American citizen who lived in Minneapolis and was working as a consultant for the Liberian finance ministry.
Sawyer was traveling to Nigeria on business and grew ill on the plane. Nigerian authorities took him into isolation but did not quarantine his fellow passengers, and they have insisted that the risk of additional cases was minimal.
The World Health Organization has confirmed three probable Ebola cases in Nigeria and one suspected case. WHO has confirmed more than 1,400 in all in West Africa.
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Whao! RIP Doctor. It is well.
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