Ebola: Nigerian doctor who treated Sawyer down with disease

Lagos recorded its second case of Ebola on Monday as a doctor who treated the Liberian victim, Patrick Sawyer is said to be down with the virus. Nigeria's Health Minister, Onyebuchi Chukwu had disclosed.

Sawyer died in Lagos last month after arriving in Lagos via a plane from Liberia.

Ebola has killed 826 people in West Africa since the outbreak began in February, mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

'As of today, one of the doctors that treated the late Mr Sawyer has tested positive to the Ebola virus,' Chukwu told a news conference.

He added that of the 70 people who were under surveillance, eight had been 'quarantined at an isolation ward provided by the Lagos state government.'

Ebola is one of the world's deadliest diseases, with a mortality rate of up to 90 percent of its cases.

The disease starts with headaches and fever, and final-stage symptoms include external and internal bleeding, vomiting and diarrhea. There is no effective treatment and no vaccine to protect against it.

The outbreak began in the forests of remote eastern Guinea in February.

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