Another Liberian with Ebola found in Lagos

Barely a month after a Liberian national, Patrick Sawyer imported the deadly Ebola disease into Nigeria, and a day after the death of Dr. Stella Adadevoh, another Liberian is in Lagos with the disease.
A Senior Registrar with Igbobi Orthopaedic hospital, Lagos, Dr Akindele Akintayo made this known while speaking  on Channels Television’s Sunrise programme this morning.

Although Dr. Akintayo didn’t reveal much, he however said that the Liberian is currently in the Lagos Isolation center.
“You need to know that there is another Liberian patient under observation that is being treated for Ebola in an Infectious Disease Hospital Lagos.
“Am not very sure if he is a new case or had contact with Patrick Sawyer,” he explained.
Dr. Akintayo also emphasized the need for infected dead persons to be cremated in order not to transmit the virus, saying that the virus survives in the dead.
He called for more community awareness programmes to help ensure that the virus would not spread to other Nigerian states.
All the confirmed Ebola cases are in Lagos State in south west Nigeria.
Several persons were said to have contracted the disease in Liberia during burials. According to reports, the late Patrick Sawyer contracted the virus during the late sister’s burial.
Since the disease broke out early this year, at least 1,200 deaths have been recorded, most of them in West Africa.