Ebola Spreads to Southern Nigeria With 3 Cases Confirmed and 60 at ‘High Risk’:WHO officials warn that the epidemic is accelerating rapidly

Thursday, September 4, 2014
By Paul Martin

Elizabeth Barber
Time.com
Sep[. 4, 2014

Three cases of Ebola have been identified in the southern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt, the World Health Organization (WHO) says, confirming that the disease has spread outside the capital Lagos, where five people have died.

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Officials in Port Harcourt — a teeming city of 1.4 million in the Niger delta — are now monitoring over 200 people, 60 of whom are considered at high risk of having contracted the disease. It is a worrying expansion of an epidemic that has now killed 1,900 in West Africa and defied the attempts of under-staffed and under-funded aid teams to halt it.

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