A Nigerian American nurse who treated the deceased in late July by the Ebola virus has died from the disease, the Ministry of Health of Nigeria.
The nurse attended the American Patrick Sawyer, who traveled from Liberia and Nigeria became the first fatality from the virus in Nigerian territory as they set out the authorities last July 25.
Five others who maintained contact with Sawyer, who died in a hospital in Lagos, have tested positive in the screening analysis of Ebola.
Nigerian Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu, required the governors of the states in the country to open more centers isolation to treat patients suspected of having contracted the virus in order to prevent the spread of the disease.
Furthermore, Chukwu, quoted by local media, revealed that Nigeria has asked the United States acquisition of the experimental drug Zmapp supplied two American doctors who were infected in Liberia and were repatriated.
"We are in contact with the Americans. Yesterday (Tuesday), I spoke by phone with the director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Tom Freiden. Talked at length and we exchanged emails," said the minister.
The ZMapp, a serum that has never before been applied to humans, had shown promising results in tests on monkeys.
Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, has begun to take measures to contain the virus, which has already caused 887 deaths in West Africa in the past four months, according to the latest data from the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Monday .
Ebola, which are crossed by direct contact with blood and body fluids of humans or animals the Infected cause severe bleeding and can have a mortality rate of 90 percent.
This is the first time identified and Ebola epidemic in West Africa is confirmed, because until now always had occurred in Central Africa.
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