A female patient on admission in the same hospital as the late Port Harcourt doctor who treated a colleague of Patrick Sawyer has tested positive for Ebola virus disease, bringing total confirmed cases to 16.
Health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu told an emergency meeting of the national council on health in Abuja that the patient--the third confirmed case in Port Harcourt--was "presently under treatment" in an isolation ward in Rivers state.
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