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Ebola Kills Liberian in Lagos in Nigeria’s First Case of Disease

By Elisha Bala-Gbogbo and Yinka Ibukun July 25, 2014

A Liberian male died of Ebola in the city of Lagos as Nigeria recorded its first case of the hemorrhagic fever, said Abdulsalami Nasidi, project director at the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.

“Suspicion was raised” after the man, who arrived in Lagos on July 20, showed symptoms similar to those of Ebola when he arrived Lagos, Yewande Adeshina, Lagos state adviser on public health, said in an e-mailed statement today.

Ebola has killed almost 540 people, or 61 percent of those infected, in its latest outbreak which the World Health Organization said may last another three to four months. The latest outbreak of the disease, which has no cure or treatment, has also affected Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

To contact the reporters on this story: Elisha Bala-Gbogbo in Abuja at [e-mail]; Yinka Ibukun in Lagos at [e-mail]

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Shaji Mathew at [e-mail] Karl Maier, Andres R. Martinez
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