Nigeria on thursday recorded the fourth Ebola fatality
following the death of a nurse, a media report said.
The nurse died early Thursday at the Yaba Mainland
General Hospital in the city of Lagos, according to the online Premium Times
newspaper.
Liberian citizen Patrick Sawyer, who died July 25,
brought the virus to the country. Another nurse who attended on Sawyer also
died Aug 5.
A 36-year-old staffer of the Economic Community of West
African States (ECOWAS), a regional group of sixteen countries, died of the
Ebola virus Tuesday.
The Nigerian government had Monday confirmed 10 new cases
of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) with 177 persons under surveillance.
According to WHO, the Ebola virus has killed more than
1,000 people since its outbreak earlier this year. The disease affected mainly
West African countries.
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