Nigeria has confirmed its first Ebola death outside Lagos – a doctor in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, said the doctor had died on August 22, but the results of the tests have only just been made
public.
A further 70 people are under surveillance in the city, while his wife, who has taken ill, has been put under quarantine. The doctor had treated a patient, who later recovered, who had met Patrick Sawyer, the man who took Ebola from Liberia to Nigeria.
West Africa’s health ministers are meeting later to discuss how to tackle the world’s most deadly Ebola outbreak. More than 1,550 people have died, with more than 3,000 confirmed cases – mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
More than 240 health workers have been infected with Ebola – a rate which the World Health Organisation said was “unprecedented”.
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