Nigeria Announces 10 Ebola Cases As Outbreak Spreads

Monday, August 11, 2014
By Paul Martin

Allafrica.com
11 August 2014

Nigeria has confirmed a new case of Ebola in its financial capital, Lagos. Senegal and Rwanda have each announced their first suspected cases, as nations take measures to halt the spread of the deadly virus.

Nigeria on Monday confirmed its 10th case of Ebola in its largest city and financial capital, Lagos.

Health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said the latest confirmed case was a female nurse involved in the care of a Liberian-American man who died of Ebola in a Lagos hospital on July 25.

Only one other infected person who, like all the other cases, had contact with the man, has died so far.

Nigeria has banned the transport of corpses across national and state borders as it tries to help stem the outbreak of the deadly disease, which has killed almost 1,000 people across West Africa. This means that Nigerians who die of Ebola in other African countries will have to be buried in the community where their death occurs.

More suspected cases

In a possible sign that the disease is spreading further, two suspected first cases of Ebola were announced on Monday in Rwanda and Senegal.

In Rwanda, the health ministry said it had placed a German student with Ebola-like symptoms in isolation in a hospital in the capital, Kigali. It said the student had recently spent time in Liberia, where the disease has killed 294 people.

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