West Africa: Lagos Panics As Ebola Spreads in West Africa

5 August 2014

Lagos residents were yesterday jolted by the news that the doctor who attended to the now late Patrick Sawyer - the man credited with bringing Ebola virus disease (EVD) to Nigeria - has contracted the virus.

The Lagos State government yesterday said a medical doctor (name withheld), one of the eight people who had direct contact with the late Liberian/American, has tested positive to EVD.

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