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 Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 10:51 am Post subject: Nigeria confirms Ebola case in megacity of Lagos |
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The article is saying that Ebola would be easier to contain in a larger city because of.better health conditions and more facilities. **I thought it might infect more people. But that is the pessimist? In me
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http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0FU1LE20140725?irpc=932
ABUJA/GENEVA (Reuters) - A Liberian man who died in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos on Friday tested positive for the deadly Ebola virus, Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said.
Patrick Sawyer, a consultant for the Liberian finance ministry in his 40s, collapsed on Sunday after flying into Lagos, a city of 21 million people, and was taken from the airport and put in isolation in a local hospital. Nigeria confirmed earlier on Friday that he had died in quarantine.
The man would be the first case on record of one of the world's deadliest diseases in Nigeria, Africa's biggest economy and with 170 million people, its most populous country. Ebola has killed 660 people across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since it was first diagnosed in February.
"His blood sample was taken to the advance laboratory at the Lagos university teaching hospital, which confirmed the diagnosis of the Ebola virus disease in the patient," Chukwu told a press conference on Friday.
"This result was corroborated by other laboratories outside Nigeria."
However, at a separate press conference held by the Lagos state government at the same time, the city's health commissioner, Jide Idris, said that they were only "assuming that it was Ebola" because they were "waiting for a confirmative test to double check" from a laboratory in Dakar.
It could not be immediately determined why there was a contradiction in the comments from central government and city officials.
The man had not entered the city, a Nigerian official told Reuters.
"The Liberian came in and he was quarantined at the airport and not allowed to go to the city. While he was quarantined he passed away. Everyone who has had contact with him has been quarantined," the official said.
Liberia's finance minister Amara Konneh named the victim as Patrick Sawyer, a consultant for Liberia's finance ministry.
"Our understanding is that the cause of death was Ebola," Konneh told Reuters, adding that the victim's sister had died of the virus three weeks previously. |
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Liberia shuts schools as Ebola spreads, Peace Corps leaves three countries
| Quote: | Liberia will close schools and consider quarantining some communities, it said on Wednesday, rolling out the toughest measures yet imposed by a West African government to halt the worst outbreak on record of the deadly Ebola virus.
"This is a major public health emergency. It's fierce, deadly and many of our countrymen are dying and we need to act to stop the spread," Lewis Brown, Liberia's information minister, told Reuters. "We need the support of the international community now more than ever. We desperately need all the help we can get."
Security forces in Liberia were ordered to enforce the action plan, which includes placing all non-essential government workers on 30-day compulsory leave. |
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