Breaking News. #EBOLA Virus Now in Port-Harcout, 1 Dead 70 under surveillance (click to see full details )

BBC Confirms that Ebola has officially spread to Port Harcourt!
Nigeria has confirmed its first Ebola death outside Lagos – a doctor in the oil hub of Port Harcourt andHis wife has been put under quarantine,while a further 70 people in the city are under surveillance.
Ebola was taken to Nigeria by Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian-American man who travelled to Lagos before dying.
One of his contacts evaded Nigeria's surveillance team and travelled to Port Harcourt, where he sought medical treatment, Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said.
Although the man later recovered, the doctor who treated him died and tests showed he had Ebola, the minister said.
The doctor had died last Friday but the results of the tests have only just been announced by the health minister.
The doctor who treated Mr Sawyer also died.
Nigeria schools shut
More than 240 health workers have been infected with Ebola - a rate which the World Health Organization (WHO) said was "unprecedented".
It noted that in many cases protective suits, even rubber gloves and face masks, were not available.
The doctor becomes the sixth fatality in Nigeria, which is Africa's most populous country.
On Wednesday, Nigeria announced that schools would not reopen until 13 October in order to
try and contain the disease.

Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)
*.Symptoms include high fever, bleeding and central nervous system damage
*.Fatality rate can reach 90% - but current outbreak has mortality rate of about 55%
*.Incubation period is two to 21 days
*.There is no vaccine or cure
*.Supportive care such as rehydrating patients who have diarrhoea and vomiting can help recovery
*.Fruit bats, a delicacy for some West Africans, are considered to be virus's natural host


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