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Nigerian Health Minister, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu says the country has confirmed two
new Ebola cases, the first two to have spread beyond those who had direct
contact with the ill traveller from Liberia who brought the disease to Nigeria, GN/AP reports.
Chukwu said Friday in
Abuja, Nigeria's capital, that the two new cases are spouses of patients who
had direct contact with Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, who flew into the
country last month with the virus and infected 11 others before he died. The
two are spouses of caregivers who treated Sawyer, both of whom later died.
These two new cases bring
the total number of confirmed infections in Nigeria, including the traveller,
to 14. Chukwu says five patients have died, five have recovered and four are
being treated in Lagos.
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