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Monday, September 1, 2014

Ebola: Three new suspected cases in Port Harcourt


• Health care workers leaving a high-risk area at the Medecins Sans Frontieres’  Elwa Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia

Three people have been taken to the Ebola Virus Disease   quarantine centre at Oduoha,   Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The State Commissioner for Health, Sampson Parker, made this known on Sunday just as the Federal Government said another emergency meeting of the National Council of Health over the EVD would hold in Abuja on Monday(today). The last meeting took place on August 11, 2014.
Parker, who addressed journalists,   said those quarantined were   a doctor, a pharmacist and a woman who came into contact with Dr, Iyke Enemuo,who died of the virus in Port Harcourt on August 22.
The pharmacist and the doctor are members of staff of Sam Steel Hospital while   the nurse worked at the Good Heart Hospital where Enemuo died.
Sam Steel Hospital was founded by   Enemuo, who contracted Ebola while treating an ECOWAS diplomat, Koye Olu-Ibukun, who travelled to Port Harcourt after coming into contact with the Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer. Sawyer died from the   virus in Nigeria.

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