Female Nigerian Doctor Has Contracted Deadly Ebola Virus

As reported on Monday, one of the doctors that treated the Liberian-born American, Patrick Sawyer, who died of the Ebola disease, had contracted the virus. Late Sawyer, who arrived at the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos on July 20, died at an Obalende hospital about five days after. The doctor is a woman.

Minister, Onyebuchi Chukwu said, "This is now the second case of Ebola virus disease in Nigeria. This victim is one of the doctors who attended to the patient who brought Ebola virus to Nigeria."

He also told journalists that "about eight other persons who came into contact with the late Sawyer, and who had developed the Ebola symptoms, had been quarantined while 70 others were under surveillance."

The minister further added that: