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Thursday, August 14, 2014

Nigeria confirms another case of Ebola

Late Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer brought Ebola to Nigeria
Making 11 confirmed cases in Nigeria starting from Patrick sawyer...

Nigeria's health minister, Onyebuchi Chukwu, has announced there is another Ebola case in Africa's most populous country, bringing the total confirmed cases there to 11.

Chukwu told reporters in Abuja, the capital, Thursday that the latest patient is a doctor who helped treat the first Ebola case in the country, Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer who arrived from Liberia last month with the virus and died on July 25. All those who are ill with Ebola in Nigeria had direct contact with Sawyer.

Source: Bloomberg/AP

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