The virus has killed more than 1,200 people in four West African countries, four of whom have died in Nigeria
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“The doctors assume an infectious gastrointestinal illness,” Manuela Zingl, a spokeswoman for the Berlin Charité hospital, said in a statement, adding the hospital still has to carry out blood tests to rule out the deadly virus that has claimed more than a thousand lives in an outbreak across West Africa
The Ebola virus has sickened at least 2127 people and killed 1145 of them in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, and Nigeria
“The government’s crisis management group met this morning to discuss West Africa and the Ebola virus. It decided to request all German citizens in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia to leave,” he said
A visit by the News Agency of Nigeria to some hospitals in the Lagos Metropolis showed that nurses and other health workers, including cleaners, were seen wearing face masks and gloves while attending to patients
This was contained in a statement issued by Malam Sani Umar, the Senior Special Assistant to Wamakko on Media, in Sokoto.
“The gesture is part of measures to check the Ebola virus which broke out in Lagos State,” it said
The meeting is to hold at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Informed sources said Jonathan had to cancel a scheduled trip to Owerri, the Imo State capital, to chair the meeting
Senator Mark told the doctors to be patriotic enough to put aside whatever grievances or misgivings they have with government and return to their duty posts to save the situation
The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, disclosed this on Wednesdaywhile briefing State House correspondents after the weekly Federal executive Council meeting presided over by Vice President Namadi Sambo
Idris said the advice was necessary because of the increase in the number of cases and deaths caused by the disease in some neighbouring West African countries such as Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone
Speaking at a news conference in Abuja, the Minister of State for Health, Dr. Khaliru Alhassan, said the alleged outbreak of Ebola disease in the country was false and misplaced