We Have No Current Case of Ebola In Nigeria - Health Minister

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We Have No Current Case of Ebola In Nigeria - Health Minister

The Nigerian ministry of Health has announced that the country currently has no active case of the deadly Ebola virus.
Nigeria’s Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu addresses diplomatic envoys on the status of the Ebola disease control in Nigeria at the Foreign Affairs House in Abuja August 7, 2014. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde
In a post by spokesman for the Minister of Health, Dan Nwomeh, he revealed that the nation has recorded 12 cured and 7 dead from the virus brought into the country by Liberian Patrick Sawyer.

He noted the case of the female student of OAU who is said to have allegedly contracted the deadly Ebola virus and had been admitted at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital OAUTH, Ile-Ife and said to have contact with PH doctor at a naming ceremony.
But news coming in states that she has tested negative to the deadly virus.

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The Ebola virus is believed to have killed no fewer than seven people in both Lagos and Port Harcourt since the late Patrick Sawyer brought the dreaded disease to Nigeria on 20 July, 2014.
No fewer than 19 persons have been confirmed to have contracted the disease.
The World Health Organisation, WHO, estimates that over 2,296 have already died from the disease since it broke out early this year in West Africa.
Apart from Nigeria, other West African nations battling the Ebola virus are Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Senegal.