Over 400 under surveillance for Ebola in PortHarcourt

According to Washington Posts;

The Nigerian Ministry of Health announced on Monday that 477 people are under surveillance for Ebola in the oil city of Port Harcourt.

Until recently the outbreak in Nigeria was almost completely confined to Lagos, where the first case of Ebola was brought by a Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer, who died days after arriving in the airport in July.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All the 477 were involved in a chain of contacts that demonstrated how viciously the virus can spread. Before he was hospitalized, Sawyer came in contact with someone. That person traveled to Port Harcourt, where he sought medical treatment from a doctor. The doctor later died from Ebola, requiring authorities to track down everyone with whom he had been in contact.

The worst outbreak of the virus on record has killed more than 2,000 people across Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, and spread to Senegal. The World Health Organization estimated that 20,000 people could be infected before the crisis ends.