UPDATE 2-Doctor dies of Ebola in Nigeria’s oil hub Port Harcourt

Thursday, August 28, 2014
By Paul Martin

By Tim Cocks and Julia Payne
Reuters.com
Thu Aug 28, 2014

* Doctor treated contact of Nigeria’s first Ebola case

* Port Harcourt at centre of Africa’s biggest oil industry

* Contacts traced in continent’s most populous state (Adds shippers, oil traders, Shell, World Health Organisation)

LAGOS/LONDON, Aug 28 (Reuters) – A doctor in Nigeria’s oil hub of Port Harcourt has died from Ebola after treating a contact of a Liberian-American man who was the first recorded case of the virus in Africa’s most populous country, the Health Ministry said on Thursday.

Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said in a statement that the doctor fell ill after treating a patient who was a contact of Patrick Sawyer, who died from Ebola in Lagos after flying in from Liberia last month.

The death in Port Harcourt brings the number of Ebola fatalities in Nigeria to 6, all of whom were direct or indirect contacts of Sawyer.

The man who infected the doctor in Port Harcourt had “evaded our surveillance team in the last week of July” in Lagos, Chukwu said. He has since recovered and has been discharged after testing negative for the virus.

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