Nigeria Records 3rd Ebola Death (ECOWAS Staff)


Nigeria has recorded another death from the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus.

This time, a staff of the Lagos Liason office of the Economic Community of West African State - ECOWAS headquarters, Mr Jatto Abdulqudir.

Confirming his death in a statement, ECOWAS management said the 36 year old man was among those who assisted the late Liberian Patrick Sawyer when he came to Lagos for a regional meeting and was quarantined after Sawyerr died of the deadly disease.

This brings to three the number of deaths from the deadly virus in Nigeria. The first two being Sawyer and a Nigerian nurse.

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