FG Confirms 19th Ebola Case

The Federal Government on Monday confirmed the 19th case of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease EVD in the country. Vanguard reports that the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, who made this known in Abuja, revealed that the 19th case was the fiancé of one of the primary contacts of the late Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer who reportedly died of the disease. READ ALSO: Ebola Solution: WHO Recommends To Use Survivors’ Blood Chukwu further explained that the test results were equivocal but further tests proved that the victim had the disease. The health minister revealed that another survivor has been discharged from the isolation centre in Port Harcourt, Rivers state. He said the discharged patient had mild symptoms, and was quarantined but because of the equivocal test result he was not placed on active treatment.