Posted on 08/20/2014 9:22:12 AM PDT by Covenantor
Top doctor is Nigeria's fifth Ebola death
Abuja - A senior doctor who treated Nigeria's first Ebola patient has died, taking the death toll in Africa's most populous country to five, health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said on Tuesday.
Chukwu said the doctor was "the most senior who participated in the management of the (first Ebola) patient" in the country.
Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, aged 40, died in a Lagos hospital on 25 July, five days after arriving at the city's airport visibly unwell on a flight from the Liberian capital, Monrovia.
"With this unfortunate development, the total number of Ebola virus-related deaths in Nigeria now stands at five," Chukwu added.
The four other deaths included two medical workers, a doctor and a nurse, who had treated the Liberian finance ministry consultant, and an official from the west African regional bloc, ECOWAS, who picked him up from the airport.
All of the cases have been in Lagos, which is sub-Saharan Africa's biggest city with more than 20 million people.
The World Health Organisation said on Tuesday that there were 15 cases of the virus in Nigeria.
The global death toll from Ebola stands at 1 229, with the bulk of cases in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
I would Like to start with him and those who he mentored.
Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the Bring Out Your Dead ping list (formerly the Ebola ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the Bring Out Your Dead threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Thanks for the ping!
Keep an eye on it. The incubation period is a few weeks. Those give could have infected another 25 easy—and they are wandering around with the virus growing inside of them.
In addition, it hasnt been three weeks since Patrick the Infected strolled through town.
Nigeria is the lynch pin here...if it breaks out there it will go global. There are too many Western Oil folks in Nigeria to contain it. They have the means and the money to get out. And they will be bringing home more than postcards.
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