A nurse who treated
Patrick Sawyer has died from Ebola virus fever after six more people tested
positive, the health ministry announced.
All six
who tested positive were in primary contact with the Liberian-American Sawyer
who died in a Lagos hospital late July.
The
nurse is the first Nigerian to die from Ebola.
Nigerian
government has asked the US Centre for Disease Control to extend the
experimental drug being administered to the two Americans infected in Liberia.
Both
are reported to be responding to treatment.
Health
minister Onyebuchi Chukwu, at a hasty briefing this morning, demanded state
governments to open up more isolation sites to contain people who might need to
be treated or isolated.
He said
the government would stop at nothing to contain the spread of Ebola.
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