Nigeria’s Minister of Health Professor Oyebuchi Chukwu has confirmed new cases of Ebola virus infection among Nigerians.Particularly, the minister said the doctor who treated the Liberian Patrick Sawyer who died of the virus in Lagos last week.
Sawyer suddenly took ill after arriving Lagos and was later diagnosed to have Ebola.He died later.
Chukwu reported ly said out of 70 people who had contact with Sawyer, 8 have been quarantined. He added ,specifically that two of those quarantined seem to have contracted the virus as they have been manifesting Ebola- like symptoms.
Also the Federal government has inaugurated an Ebola Treatment Research Team wth Professor Innocent Ujah as co-chair.Former INEC boss Professor Maurice Iwu and some officials from Centre for Disease Control are reportedly on the team .
