Nigeria Ebola Patient Hid From Government

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

Nigerian health authorities announced Thursday, a man who contracted Ebola in Nigeria after coming into contact with a traveler from Liberia evaded surveillance and infected a doctor in southern Nigeria who later died. The death was the first in Nigeria outside Lagos, the commercial capital. Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu told reporters the man who evaded surveillance has recovered and is now being watched in Lagos.

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