Deadly Ebola virus spreads to Nigeria by plane as Sierra Leone hunts kidnapped patient…” Once on the plane he vomited, before dying in Nigeria.”
Tomas Jivanda
Independent.co.uk
Saturday 26 July 2014
The Ebola virus that has already killed 660 people across West Africa has spread to Nigeria after a Liberian man boarded a plane to the country, the most populous in the continent.
He managed to board the flight despite of having a high fever. Once on the plane he vomited, before dying in Nigeria.
Upon arrival in the country’s capital Lagos – a megacity home to 21 million people – the 40-year-old had been moved to an isolation ward.
Believed to be a government official with the finance ministry, he had recently lost his sister to Ebola in Liberia, health officials there said. Authorities are now investigating anyone who may have come into contact with him.
Nigerian health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said it was the first case of Ebola to be confirmed in Nigeria since the start of the current outbreak in the region. The disease has already hit Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, infecting 1,093.
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