A Nigerian nurse infected with the Ebola virus has died, the second confirmed fatality from the disease in Nigeria, the health minister said on Wednesday. The nurse, the first native Nigerian to die from the disease, had been involved in the treatment of Patrick Sawyer, a Liberia and U.S. citizen who died of Ebola in Lagos last month shortly after arriving at the airport.
Nigerian Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu told reporters that five other cases are being treated at an isolation ward in Lagos.
A Nigerian nurse
infected with the Ebola virus has died, the second confirmed fatality
from the disease in Nigeria, the health minister said on Wednesday.
The nurse, the first native Nigerian to die from the disease, had been
involved in the treatment of Patrick Sawyer, a Liberia and U.S. citizen
who died of Ebola in Lagos last month shortly after arriving at the
airport.
Nigerian Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu told reporters five other
cases were being treated at an isolation ward in Lagos.
Read more at: BREAKING: Minister Of Health Announces Death Of Nurse Who Treated Liberian Ebola Victim | LATEST NIGERIAN NEWS BREAKING HEADLINES NEWSPAPERS
Read more at: BREAKING: Minister Of Health Announces Death Of Nurse Who Treated Liberian Ebola Victim | LATEST NIGERIAN NEWS BREAKING HEADLINES NEWSPAPERS
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