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.