News broke out early afternoon that the Liberian man , Mr. Patrick Sawyer, a WASH consultant at the
Ministry of Finance, who had been quarantined since falling ill after arriving in Lagos for a conference last Sunday, has reportly died.. Health authorities in Nigeria announced yesterday , Thursday , that the 40-year-old man was being tested for the deadly Ebola virus in
Lagos .His death is the first recorded case of one of the world's deadliest diseases in Nigeria.
Ebola has killed 632 people across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since an outbreak began in February. The virus starts off with flu-like
symptoms and often ends with horrific hemorrhaging (internal/external bleeding). It has infected about 1,048 people and killed an
estimated 632. There were rumors sometime that the people in the North were infected but the government debunked the rumors . So this his case is officially the first in Nigeria ..
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