Ebola Cases In Port Harcourt Rise As Doctor Tests Positive

A female doctor, who was on admission in
the same hospital where the late Port
Harcourt doctor was admitted, has tested
positive to Ebola and is currently being
treated in the isolation ward in River State.
The case brings the number of confirmed Ebola
cases in the state to three including that of the
late medical doctor and the ECOWAS staff who
brought the virus to the state.
During a meeting of the National Emergency
Council on Ebola out-break in Nigeria on
Monday, the Minister of Health, Professor
Onyebuchi Chukwu, said that a few more cases
of the Ebola Virus Disease were expected in
Rivers State.
He told the gathering of states health
commissioners that they should continue to
make more efforts to ensure that the disease
was contained.
At least 1,500 deaths have been reported since
the outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease early
this year.
Sixteen Ebola cases have so far been reported
in Nigeria since a Liberian-American man,
Patrick Sawyer, brought the virus to Lagos State
in south-west Nigeria in July.