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Nigeria Confirms New Case of Ebola in Lagos

by Bidita Debnath on August 12, 2014 at 11:56 PM
Nigeria Confirms New Case of Ebola in Lagos

In the financial capital Lagos, Nigeria confirmed a new case of Ebola, bringing the total number of people with the virus to 10.

Health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said the latest confirmed case was a female nurse who came into contact with a Liberian-American man, who died of Ebola in a Lagos hospital on July 25.

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