Speaking with newsmen in Abuja today, the Minister said the doctor died on Friday Aug. 22nd after treating a diplomat who had direct contact with Patrick Sawyer, the first case of Ebola virus disease in Nigeria. He said laboratory analysis on his corpse showed he died from Ebola.
"Following the report of his death by the doctor's widow the next day, the case had been thoroughly investigated and laboratory analysis showed that this doctor died from EVD (Ebola Virus Disease" the Minister told reporters in AbujaHe also confirmed to reporters that two people in Port Harcourt have contracted the Ebola Virus disease.
It will be recalled that on Tuesday August 26th, Nigeria's Health Minister, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu said there was only one case of Ebola in Nigeria, now he's confirmed that a doctor indeed died in Port Harcourt from Ebola.
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