The doctor who treated a man who flew to Nigeria and died of Ebola has contracted the disease, authorities said yesterday (Aug 4), presenting a dire challenge to Africa’s most populous nation as the regional toll for the outbreak grew to 887 dead.
As Nigerian health authorities rushed to quarantine others who had been exposed, a special plane left Liberia to evacuate the second American missionary who fell ill with Ebola. Ms Nancy Writebol, 59, is expected to arrive in Atlanta today, where she will be treated at a special isolation ward.
The second confirmed case in Nigeria is a doctor who treated Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American man who died on July 25 days after arriving in Nigeria from Liberia, said Nigerian Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu.
Three others who also treated Sawyer now show symptoms of Ebola and their test results are pending, he said. Authorities are trying to trace and quarantine others in Lagos, sub-Saharan Africa’s largest city of 21 million people.
The emergence of a second case in Nigeria raises serious concerns about the infection control practices there, and also raises the spectre of the possibility that more cases could emerge. It can take up to 21 days after exposure to the virus for symptoms to appear. They include fever, sore throat, muscle pains and headaches. Often nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea follow, along with severe internal and external bleeding in advanced stages of the disease.
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