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The husband and children of the Nigerian nurse who died after getting infected
with the Ebola virus are on the run, the health officials in the country have said.
Nigeria is the fourth West African country to be hit by the Ebola outbreak since it
first emerged in March in Guinea. The virus entered the country when Patrick
Sawyer, who was suffering from the disease arrived by plane late last month in
Lagos.
Sawyer, who worked for the Liberian government in Monrovia and had a wife
and three young daughters in Minnesota, was on a business flight to Nigeria
when he fell ill.
The nurse, the only Nigerian fatality from the disease which has killed over 900
people in four West African countries, was exposed to the virus at a health
facility Sawyer was taken before his death.
The nurse’s family were not the first to flee from quarantine. In Sierra Leone,
health ministry data and officials, dozens of people confirmed by laboratory
tests to have Ebola are now unaccounted for.
Industry watchers say the government more increase public awareness and
sensitisation to educate the public.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organisation (WHO) is meeting with Nigerian Ebola
Research Team on control and remedy of the disease.
A six-man research committee was inaugurated by the Federal Government on
August 4, 2014 with a mandate to carry out research on the deadly contagious
virus.
with the Ebola virus are on the run, the health officials in the country have said.
Nigeria is the fourth West African country to be hit by the Ebola outbreak since it
first emerged in March in Guinea. The virus entered the country when Patrick
Sawyer, who was suffering from the disease arrived by plane late last month in
Lagos.
Sawyer, who worked for the Liberian government in Monrovia and had a wife
and three young daughters in Minnesota, was on a business flight to Nigeria
when he fell ill.
The nurse, the only Nigerian fatality from the disease which has killed over 900
people in four West African countries, was exposed to the virus at a health
facility Sawyer was taken before his death.
The nurse’s family were not the first to flee from quarantine. In Sierra Leone,
health ministry data and officials, dozens of people confirmed by laboratory
tests to have Ebola are now unaccounted for.
Industry watchers say the government more increase public awareness and
sensitisation to educate the public.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organisation (WHO) is meeting with Nigerian Ebola
Research Team on control and remedy of the disease.
A six-man research committee was inaugurated by the Federal Government on
August 4, 2014 with a mandate to carry out research on the deadly contagious
virus.
