Nigerian states with Ebola cases (Lagos and Rivers)
Disease
Ebolavirus
First outbreak
Patrick Sawyer
Index case
6 August 2014
Confirmed cases
20
Deaths
8
Cases of the Ebola virus disease in Nigeria were reported in 2014 as a small part of the epidemic of Ebola virus disease (commonly known as "Ebola") which originated in Guinea that represented the first outbreak of the disease in a West African country. Previous outbreaks had been confined to countries in Central Africa.[1][2]
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