Liberia declares state of emergency over Ebola
CBSNews.com
Aug 6, 2014
ABUJA, Nigeria –Liberia’s president declared a state of emergency Wednesday as the World Health Organization said the death toll from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has risen to 932.
The new figures come as Nigeria confirmed the death of a nurse of Ebola. It was the second death from the disease in Nigeria and a growing number of cases are being reported in Lagos, a megacity of some 21 million people.
The first death in Nigeria was that of Patrick Sawyer, a 40-year-old American of Liberian descent with a wife and three young daughters in Minnesota. Sawyer, who worked in Liberia, was traveling on a business flight to Nigeria when he fell ill. Nigerian authorities acknowledge they did not treat Sawyer as an Ebola patient and failed to isolate him for the first 24 hours after his arrival in Nigeria last month.
The death of the unidentified nurse marks the second Ebola fatality in Nigeria, and this worries health experts as it is the Africa’s most populous country and Lagos, where the deaths occurred, one of its biggest cities.
In Liberia, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf declared a state of emergency late Wednesday and said some civil rights may have to be suspended as a result of the crisis.
“Ignorance and poverty, as well as entrenched religious and cultural practices, continue to exacerbate the spread of the disease,” she said in a televised address to the nation.
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