- Title: NIGERIA: Nigeria reports its second Ebola case
- Date: 4th August 2014
- Summary: ABUJA, NIGERIA (AUGUST 04, 2014) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF NIGERIA'S HEALTH MINISTER SEATED WITH GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AT NEWS CONFERENCE HEALTH MINISTER LOOKING AT NOTES AND ANOTHER OFFICIAL SEATED BESIDE HIM GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS SEATED AT NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (English) NIGERIA'S HEALTH MINISTER, ONYEABUCHI CHUKWU, SAYING: "As of today we have the first of those health personnel who have now become ebola positive and is being treated as such, so if we are keeping records this is now the second case of ebola virus disease in Nigeria." VARIOUS OF JOURNALISTS SEATED AT NEWS BRIEFING (SOUNDBITE) (English) NIGERIA'S HEALTH MINISTER, ONYEABUCHI CHUKWU, SAYING: "As I speak also three others who participated in that treatment who are currently symptomatic have had their samples taken and hopefully by the end of today we should have the result of their own test so two cases so far: one dead, one is alive and is being managed as a case of ebola virus disease." EBOLA HELP LINES AND CONTACT INFORMATION ON SCREEN NEWS CONFERENCE
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- Location: Nigeria
- Country: Nigeria
- Topics: General,Health,Politics
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- Story Text: Lagos recorded its second case of Ebola on Monday (August 4), in a doctor who treated U.S. victim Patrick Sawyer, Nigeria's health minister said.
Sawyer died in Lagos last month after arriving there by plane from Liberia.
Ebola has killed 826 people in West Africa, mostly Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, since the outbreak began in February.
Nigeria's heath minister Onyebuchi Chukwu announced the second positive case of the virus, at a news conference held in the capital city of Abuja "As of today we have the first of those health personnel who have now become Ebola positive and is being treated as such so if we are keeping records this is now the second case of Ebola virus disease in Nigeria," he said.
"As I speak also three others who participated in that treatment who are currently symptomatic have had their samples taken and hopefully by the end of today we should have the result of their own test so two cases so far: one dead, one is alive and is being managed as a case of Ebola virus disease," Chukwu added.
Ebola is one of the world's deadliest diseases, with a mortality rate of up to 90 percent of cases. The disease starts with headaches and fever, and final-stage symptoms include external and internal bleeding, vomiting and diarrhoea, with no effective treatment and no vaccine to protect against it.
The latest outbreak began in the forests of remote eastern Guinea in February. Its arrival in Nigeria, Africa's biggest economy and its most populous country, with 170 million people, has caused panic.
Lagos is Africa's biggest city and one of the world's most crowded, with 21 million people and poor healthcare infrastructure. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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