Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, said on Monday that another Lagos nurse has tested positive to the Ebola Virus Disease.
The development came 22 days after the first first case of the virus was recorded.
The minister explained that the newly married nurse was among those that had direct contact with the late Liberian man, Patrick Sawyer, who imported the disease to Nigeria.
Chukwu also added that the husband of the nurse was also among the 177 people who had now been placed under surveillance.
He added that, so far, nine have developed EVD,thus bringing the total number of cases in Nigeria to 10.
According to him, two people, that is the Liberian and the nurse are dead while eight are alive and currently on treatment.
He also said all those who had primary contact with Sawyer had been contacted and placed on either surveillance or quarantined.
The minister also said the infection of the virus had so far been restricted to Lagos as it had not spread to other parts of the country. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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if her husband is now under surveillance that means she must have gone home,entered the bus, bought food items (and touch them) got in contact with people. this also means that there is a chance that this disease has really entered the city of lagos. GOD help us o
ReplyDeleteI think most of this people got infected at the quarantine facility, cos its like anyone who is placed under surveillance ends up coming up with the symptoms.the facility might have been seriously infected and contagious after all, the people you place under surveillance must have come into contact with other people before being quarantined and I believe those people are so far not infected. please, lets be careful about all this 'placing under surveillance thing' so that it will not become the death sentence of healthy people.
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