Late P’Harcourt doctor’s sister tests positive for Ebola

The minister of health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu, has said that the number of Ebola Virus Disease in the country has risen to 18, the latest casualty being the sister of the late Port Harcourt doctor.

The ministry of health has confirmed 18 people, including the deceased, as having the virus in Nigeria — fourteen in Lagos and four in Port Harcourt.

Eight people who contracted the virus have been successfully treated and discharged, Nwomeh said in a series of statements on Twitter. A ninth person, who infected the Port Harcourt doctor, also recovered.He said, “The last case to be discharged, the first secondary contact to be diagnosed and a spouse of a primary contact of the index case went home from the isolation ward in Lagos yesterday.

A total of 41 people were under surveillance in Lagos and 255 in Port Harcourt. And 320 people have been discharged in Lagos after being under surveillance for 21 days — the virus’ incubation period.

The minister also debunked rumours of EVD cases outside Lagos and Port Harcourt.

These include the three reported cases in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and one case in Calabar.

Beware of fake Ebola test kit – Lagos state government

Lagos State Government has alerted residents on the activities of some “unscrupulous” people who are purportedly, hawking “Ebola Cassettes, Test Kit” to unsuspecting people.

In a statement Wednesday by the Special Adviser on Media to Governor Babatunde Fashola, Mr Hakeem Bello, the fake items which are branded as “Rapid Response Canada with test results purportedly available in 10 minutes” is a hoax.

According to Bello, there are no Ebola test kits manufactured anywhere in the world and that the technique for its manufacture does not exist yet, adding that members of the public should not patronize the dubious marketers of the products.

Ebola In PortHarcourt: Second Ebola Victim Dies

The Federal Government  on Wednesday, September 3, 2014 announced that a seventh person had died from Ebola and another person was confirmed as having the virus in Nigeria.

The latest death is an elderly woman who was treated in the same hospital with the doctor, Ike Enemuo, who died in Port Harcourt on August 22, 2014 after treating an Ebola patient.

Dr Enemuo fell ill and died after treating an official from the ECOWAS regional bloc who traveled to Port Harcourt from Lagos after having contact with Liberian man, Patrick Sawyer, who brought the virus into Nigeria.

The other five deaths were in Lagos.