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| Health workers battling Ebola |
The Federal Government said on
Wednesday that a nurse, who was one of the medical personnel that attended to
the late Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer, has died of the disease.
Sawyer died of Ebola virus in a
Lagos private hospital penultimate Friday.
Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi
Chukwu, who stated this at a news conference in Abuja, also confirmed that five
other medical practitioners, who participated in the treatment, were already
infected with the virus.
He said, “Nigeria has now recorded
seven confirmed cases of Ebola Virus Disease.
