Ebola Confirmed In Port Harcourt – 1 Dead, 2 Infected And 70 Under Surveillance

 
It was reported yesterday that a patient suspected to be infected with the dreaded Ebola virus has died in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. And despite denials by Rivers state health commissioner, Sampson Parker at a press conference yesterday, who insisted that Ebola did not kill the victim, but fever and diarrhoea, new reports contradict him.

Nigeria’s Health Minister, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu confirmed that the dead man was a PH doctor named Ikye Enemoah, and he died on Friday Aug. 22nd after treating a diplomat who had direct contact with Patrick Sawyer. He said laboratory analysis on his corpse showed he died from Ebola.

    “Following the report of his death by the doctor’s widow the next day, the case had been thoroughly investigated and laboratory analysis showed that this doctor died from EVD (Ebola Virus Disease).”


He also confirmed to reporters that two people in Port Harcourt have contracted the Ebola disease, the doctor’s wife and the diplomat he treated. The wife has been quarantined and the diplomat under surveillance.


An official of the Rivers state Government also confirmed that one patient has indeed died of the Ebola Virus Disease in PH. The official, who asked not to be named because she was not authorized to speak with journalists, said,

    “Forget yesterday’s press conference, Ebola is in Port Harcourt, and someone has died. We are now scrambling to track everybody who was in contact with him.”