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Thursday, 28 August 2014

Ebola: Health minister confirms death, two other cases in Port Harcourt.


I taught there was only one case of Ebola in Nigeria? Well On Tuesday August 26th, Nigeria's Health Minister, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu has  confirmed that a doctor indeed died in Port Harcourt from Ebola. 

Speaking with newsmen in Abuja today, the Minister said the doctor died on Friday Aug. 22nd after treating a diplomat who had direct contact with Patrick Sawyer, the first case of Ebola virus disease in Nigeria. He said laboratory analysis on his corpse showed he died from Ebola.
"Following the report of his death by the doctor's widow the next day, the case had been thoroughly investigated and laboratory analysis showed that this doctor died from EVD (Ebola Virus Disease" the Minister told reporters in Abuja
He also confirmed to reporters that two people in Port Harcourt have contracted the Ebola Virus disease. So Ebola has moved from Lagos to Port Harcourt?

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