Liberian man in Lagos being tested for Ebola

BY CHIJIOKE OHUOCHA

LAGOS Fri Jul 25, 2014 2:56am IST

(Reuters) - A Liberian man is being tested for the deadly Ebola virus after he collapsed on arrival at an airport in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos, a mega-city of 21 million people, the Lagos State Health Ministry said on Thursday.

Ebola has killed 660 people across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since it was first diagnosed in the region in February, straining their impoverished healthcare systems.

If confirmed, the case would be the first on record of one of the world's deadliest diseases in Nigeria, Africa's biggest economy and, with 170 million people, its most populous country.

The special adviser on public health to the Lagos state government, Yewande Adeshina, told a news conference the man, who is in his 40s, arrived at Lagos airport from Liberia on Sunday. He was rushed to hospital and put in an isolation ward, she said.

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Comment by Ragnarok on August 7, 2014 at 9:09am: Liberia declares state of emergency as Ebola death toll rises to 932

Published time: August 06, 2014 23:36
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Comment by Ragnarok on August 6, 2014 at 6:11pm: Saudi man suspected of contracting Ebola dies

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Comment by Ragnarok on August 1, 2014 at 11:47am: Sierra Leone declares emergency as Ebola death toll hits 729

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Comment by Ragnarok on August 1, 2014 at 11:30am: Infected Americans are controversially airlifted back for treatment with one going to Atlanta isolation unit... but the destination of the other is unknown

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Comment by Ragnarok on August 1, 2014 at 4:15am: Ebola-infected US aid worker to be treated in ‘special isolation unit’ in Atlanta

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Comment by Ragnarok on July 31, 2014 at 6:00am: Peace Corps leaves West Africa as Ebola outbreak expands

Published time: July 30, 2014 23:35

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Comment by Ragnarok on July 30, 2014 at 10:54pm

Ebola: Spider's web of infection is growing as hunt continues for 30,000 'victims' of outbreak

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Comment by Ragnarok on July 30, 2014 at 6:43pm: EU on high alert as Germany agrees to accept Ebola patients

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Comment by Ragnarok on July 30, 2014 at 10:05am

How deadly Ebola has spread across the globe: Fears virus has now reached Asia after Hong Kong woman returning from Kenya shows symptoms of killer disease

Hong Kong woman quarantined when she fell ill after returning from Kenya
Expert claims panic over death of U.S. man in Nigeria is 'justified'
He warned the spread of Ebola could become a global pandemic
Health campaigners petition U.S. drug authorities to fast-track potential cure
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond declares disease is 'very serious threat'
He will chair an emergency meeting on how to boost defences
British airlines are also on 'red alert' for cases of the deadly virus
Man with 'feverish' symptoms tested for deadly Ebola at Birmingham hospital
He had travelled into Midlands from Benin, Nigeria via France when he fell ill
Charing Cross Hospital staff also feared man had Ebola symptoms this week
No cases have been confirmed in UK but 672 people have died in West Africa
Warning issued to GPs, A&E departments and all NHS trusts across the UK
Symptoms include high fever, bleeding and damage to the nervous system

By LIZZIE PARRY and EMMA GLANFIELD and MARIO LEDWITH

PUBLISHED: 01:12 GMT, 30 July 2014 | UPDATED: 13:46 GMT, 30 July 2014

The latest outbreak of Ebola is the most severe since the disease was discovered in 1976. So far the disease has spread from a village in Guinea to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria

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Comment by Ragnarok on July 28, 2014 at 7:07am: Yea DTOM i remember all to well the media hype surrounding the circus of doom scare.

But at least the globalists got what they wanted. Which was more or less wiping out small organic farmers/ farming communities by pushing all these totalitarian legistrations against them, all to 'protect' the consumers from something that was possible man-made in the first place.

Lets face it the legistrated protective measures to protect the farm animals from catching a deadly airborn disease is absolutely preposterous.

If this comes to a western capital or just a large city they are screwed. People will run around like headless chickens because they have been schooled to be ignorant.

I wont even imagine the scenes when people finally realizes that their government from the start had lied to em by saying they have it contained while all along it was running amok due to our dense and modern day of living.

@Less yea they probably do. We dont see the gigantic leap of medicine and technology theres available today but only for the ones with the big wallets.

@Tara thanks