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NNPC Doctor Admitted To Hospital For Ebola

August 19, 2014

A new suspected case of Ebola has surfaced at the Ebola treatment center in Lagos.

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Ebola in West Africa: Patient being treated at Sierra Leone clinic

A government source told SaharaReporters that a medical doctor at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) clinic in Lagos, who attended to one of the doctors that treated Patrick Sawyer, developed Ebola symptoms.

Interestingly, the suspected victim, a woman, had previously been treated and discharged, later being brought back into quarantine to be observed and retested. 

[story_link align="left"]34393[/story_link]On August 8 of this year, the NNPC clinc in the Muri Okunola area of Victoria Island in Lagos was closed indefinitely, following "pre-emptive" suspicion of an Ebola virus a suspected case of the Ebola virus at the location.