Since the first case of Ebola was diagnosed in the United States of America on Tuesday, the country's health authorities have been citing Nigeria's experience at containing the outbreak of the virus as a success story that should be emulated in the US.
Several US health experts and the Director-General of the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Dr. Thomas Frieden, appeared on CNN on Tuesday and wednesday during which they spoke of Nigeria's quick and coordinated action by some of its top doctors to contain the outbreak in Lagos and Port Harcourt after the disease was imported into the country by Liberian Patrick Sawyer.
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