New Nigeria Ebola Cases Amid Fears Epidemic 'Out of Control'

Publisher:
Wochit
Publication Date:
7 August 2014
Tags:
West Africa, Nigeria, Health and Medicine

The death toll of the Ebola epidemic neared 1,000 on Wednesday as fears rose that the disease is taking hold in Africa's most populous nation of Nigeria, after a second death among seven confirmed cases in Lagos. The spread of the disease comes as the World Health Organization met in an emergency session in Geneva to decide whether to declare an international crisis.

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