Liberian Man With Ebola Virus Dies In Lagos

July 25, 2014 by Don Saint 1 Comment

Mr. Patrick Sawyer, a WASH consultant at the Ministry of Finance, who had been quarantined since falling ill after arriving in Lagos, Nigeria, 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.

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.

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