As Ebola continues to claim more lives in West Africa, Nigeria announced another case of the disease on Thursday, bringing the total confirmed cases in Africa’s most populous country to 11.
Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu told reporters in Abuja, the capital, that the latest patient is a doctor who helped treat the first Ebola case in the country, Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, who arrived from Liberia last month with the virus and died on July 25. All those who are ill with Ebola in Nigeria had direct contact with Sawyer.
Ebola has killed more than 1,000 people and sickened nearly 2,000 in its current West African outbreak, which has hit Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. So far, Nigeria has recorded three deaths.
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