One of the nurses who attended Patrick Sawyer, the first Ebola victim in Nigeria, has died.
Health Minister Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu made
this known in Abuja August 6, Punch reports. He also revealed that 5
other medical practitioners involved in treatment contracted the virus.
“Nigeria has now recorded seven confirmed
cases of Ebola Virus Disease. The first one was the index case, which is
the imported case from Liberia of which the victim is now late.
Yesterday, 5th August, 2014, the first known Nigerian to die of the EVD
was recorded and this was one of the nurses that attended to the
Liberian. The other five cases are currently being treated at the
Isolation Ward in Lagos.”
Sawyer, a US citizen was travelling from
Liberia, the center of Ebola epidemic, to Nigeria and was admitted to a
Lagos hospital where he died from the symptoms of the deadly
disease last month.
Two days ago the case of infection was
confirmed by the Nigerian officials: the health worker contracted the
disease while treating Sawyer.
Since February the deadly virus has claimed
more than 700 lives in West Africa, mostly Sierra Leone, Guinea and
Liberia, and keeps spreading in the continent.
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