Nigeria Quarantines 2 People over Ebola

Nigeria’s Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu has
announced that two people who had “primary
contact” with Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian man who
died of Ebola in Lagos last week, have been
quarantined and 69 placed under medical
surveillance.
AFP reports that Mr Chukwu told reporters in Abuja:
“We are tracking all those with primary contact
with a view to deciding those who must be
quarantined and those who will just remain under
surveillance. As at today 69 are under surveillance
and two quarantined,” he said, adding that “they
will remain under the surveillance until a period
of three weeks at least”.
Spread by close contact with an infected person
through bodily fluids such as sweat, blood and tissue,
Ebola can fell victims within days, causing severe
fever and muscle pain, vomiting and diarrhoea — and
in some cases, organ failure and unstoppable
bleeding.