NIGERIA EBOLA DOCTOR CONTRACTED THE VIRUS; it is the second confirmed Nigeria case, health minister says.
A doctor in the Nigerian city of Lagos who treated a Liberian victim of Ebola has contracted the virus, the second confirmed case in sub-Saharan Africa's largest city, authorities said. Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu, who confirmed the positive test, said on Monday that 70 other people believed to have come into contact with the Liberian were being monitored, with eight placed in quarantine including three who were "symptomatic." The confirmed case "is one of the doctors who attended to the Liberian Ebola patient who died," Chukwu told journalists. A quarantine unit has been set up in Lagos and blood tests from the three people displaying Ebola-like symptoms have been sent for testing, with results expected later on Monday, the minister said. Patrick Sawyer, who worked for Liberia's finance ministry, contracted the virus from his sister before travelling to Lagos for a meeting of west African officials. He landed in Lagos on July 20 fro...