Nigeria reports 3rd fatality from Ebola
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A MEMBER of staff of the West African regional body Ecowas has become the third person in Nigeria to die of Ebola fever, Ecowas said yesterday.
Jatto Asihu Abdulqudir, 36, a protocol assistant, had traveled to an Ecowas function in Nigeria with Liberian Patrick Sawyer, the man who brought Ebola to Nigeria last month. Abdulqudir later fell ill and was placed under quarantine.
The country has reported eight cases of Ebola since Sawyer arrived on July 20.
“The commission wishes to reassure staff of all community institutions all over the entire region that it is taking all necessary steps to guarantee their health and safety,” Ecowas said in a statement.
Separately, a nurse who had been in close contact with Sawyer skipped quarantine in Lagos and headed to her home in the southeastern city of Enugu, where she had contact with 20 other people, the government said yesterday.
Information Minister Labaran Maku said the woman, herself a suspected case, and her 20 contacts were all under surveillance in Enugu, bringing the total number being watched in the country to 189.
Her action highlights the risk of an outbreak in Lagos, a southwestern megacity of 21 million people.
“One of the nurses that was involved with the treatment of the index case, unfortunately, disobeyed medical instructions and somehow traveled to Enugu,” Maku said after a weekly Cabinet meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan.
The disease has killed more than 1,000 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, with the World Health Organization calling it an international emergency.
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