7/25/2014
BREAKING NEWS!>>PATRICK SAWYER, SUSPECTED LIBERIA EBOLA CASE IN LAGOS, IS DEAD
PATRICK
SAWYER, SUSPECTED LIBERIA EBOLA CASE IN LAGOS, IS DEAD
Mr. Patrick Sawyer, a WASH consultant at the Ministry of Finance, who
had been quarantined since falling ill after arriving in the Nigerian
state of Lagos for a conference last Sunday, has died.
A Liberian government official, speaking on condition of anonymity said
the news of Sawyer's death was relayed to Liberia by the Nigerian
embassy, early Friday morning.
Nigerian government health authorities announced Thursday that Sawyer,
40 was being tested for the deadly Ebola virus in Nigeria's commercial
capital of Lagos, a megacity of 21 million people.
Sawyer’s death is the first recorded case of one of the world's
deadliest diseases in Nigeria, Africa's biggest economy and most
populous nation, with 170 million people and some of Africa's least
adequate health infrastructure.
Ebola has killed 632 people across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone
since an outbreak began in February, straining a string of weak health
systems despite international help.
The virus — which starts off with flu-like symptoms and often ends with
horrific hemorrhaging — has infected about 1,048 people and killed an
estimated 632 since this winter, according to the numbers on July 17
from the World Health Organization.
Ebola is both rare and very deadly. Since the first outbreak in 1976,
Ebola viruses have infected thousands of people and killed about
one-third of them. Symptoms can come on very quickly and kill fast:
Firstclassnewsline reported Thursday that Sawyer may have contracted the
virus from his sister, who died at the Catholic Hospital some three
weeks ago.
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