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| Nigerian port health officials uses a thermometer on a worker at the arrivals hall of MMIA, Lagos, Nigeria, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) |
Nigerian authorities rushed to obtain isolation tents
Wednesday in anticipation of more Ebola infections as they disclosed five more
cases of the virus and a death in Africa's most populous nation, where
officials were racing to keep the gruesome disease confined to a small group of
patients, according to Associated Press.
The five new Nigerian cases were all in Lagos, a megacity of 21 million people in a country already beset with poor health care infrastructure and widespread corruption, and all five were reported to have had direct contact with one infected man.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization began a meeting to decide whether the crisis, the worst recorded outbreak of its kind, amounts to an international public health emergency. At least 932 deaths in four countries have been blamed on the illness, with 1,711 reported cases.
The five new Nigerian cases were all in Lagos, a megacity of 21 million people in a country already beset with poor health care infrastructure and widespread corruption, and all five were reported to have had direct contact with one infected man.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization began a meeting to decide whether the crisis, the worst recorded outbreak of its kind, amounts to an international public health emergency. At least 932 deaths in four countries have been blamed on the illness, with 1,711 reported cases.
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