Nigeria Confirms 10 Ebola Cases (all Patrick Sawyer contacts)

[morningfog]

Nigeria's health ministry says it has confirmed a new case of Ebola in Lagos, bringing the total number of people with the virus to 10 - up from seven at the last count. But only two so far have died, including the Liberian who brought the virus in, the health minister said on Monday.

All were people who had had primary contact with Patrick Sawyer, who collapsed on arrival at Lagos airport on July 25 and later died, Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu told a news conference.



http://www.voanews.com/content/nigeria-confirms-10-ebola-cases/2409364.html

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. is patrick patient zero?

[Sunlei]

2. no, last report I read a 2 year old was considered patient zero (his close family also died)

There really isn't much of a health tracking system in Africa, so there could be a lot of unknown deaths.

[morningfog]

3. He is the one who carried ebola from Liberia to Nigeria.

He is essentially, Nigeria's patient zero. He arrived in Lagos airport and collapsed on July 20. He died five days later. The significance of the 10 cases coming from Sawyer is that there is no other ebola line of infections in Nigeria (or outside Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea for that matter).