Lagos now has eight suspected cases of Ebola virus disease according to the State Commissioner for Health, Jide Idris.


He said all were people who came into contact with late Patrick Sawyer, a Liberia and U.S. citizen who died of the disease in Lagos last month shortly after arriving at the airport.

Accroding to him, one case has been confirmed and it is that of the female doctor who treated Sawyer, before his dead. She is presently down with the disease.

Authorities have been monitoring anyone who came into close contact with Sawyer.

Jide Idris also said a further six people who had made contact with Sawyer had been quarantined but were not showing symptoms.

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