Ebola: 2 Nigerians Test Positive In Sierra Leone
from left, Bellevue Hospital nurse Belkys Fortune and Associate Director of Infection Prevention and Control Teressa Celia wear protective suits during a demonstration of procedures for possible Ebola patients. (Photo Credit: AP) Health officials in Sierra Leone have officially informed the ministry of health that two Nigerians living in Freetown have been diagnosed with the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). This was made known on Thursday, November 6, 2014, by the minister of state for health, Dr Khaliru Alhassan,during a press brief with journalists at the just-concluded National Council on Health Meeting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state's capital. According to him, the details of the two cases will be made available at the conclusion of the full investigation of their status. The two Nigerians include a 27-year-old indigene of Abia state and while a 22-year-old indigene of Edo State. He stressed that from the information available to the ministry, both Nigerians receiv...