Patrick Sawyer, Ebola victim, is dead

by Kolapo Olapoju

 

A health official within the Lagos state health system has confirmed to YNaija that ebola victimPatrick Sawyer, the Liberian national suspected of having the Ebola virus, is dead.

Sawyer’s death is the first recorded case of one of the world’s deadliest diseases in Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy and most populous nation, with 170 million people and some of Africa’s least adequate health infrastructure.

Reports say that the deceased may have contracted the virus from his sister, who died at a Catholic Hospital three weeks ago.

Ebola has killed 632 people across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since an outbreak began in February, straining a string of weak health systems despite international help.

The virus — which starts off with flu-like symptoms and often ends with horrific hemorrhaging — has infected about 1,048 people and killed an estimated 632 since this winter, according to the numbers on July 17 from the World Health Organisation.

Ebola is both rare and very deadly. Since the first outbreak in 1976, Ebola viruses have infected thousands of people and killed about one-third of them. Symptoms can come on very quickly and kill fast.

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  1. This Ebola disease report is conflicting, before now the report from the medics said the symptom found on the deceased were “ebola like“ meaning probability. To avoid creating public panic the full details of the deceased’s ailment should have been ascertained before making it news for public consumption. May God protect the living while we pray that the soul of the dead rest in peace.

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