{"id":4436,"date":"2014-07-25T11:22:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T04:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4436"},"modified":"2014-07-25T11:22:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T04:22:35","slug":"nigeria-health-ministry-tests-liberian-for-ebola-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-health-ministry-tests-liberian-for-ebola-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Health Ministry tests Liberian for Ebola virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lagos State Ministry of Health in Nigeria, on Thursday, said it is testing a Liberian man, in his 40s, for the deadly Ebola virus.<\/p>\n<p>The special adviser on public health to the Lagos state government, Yewande Adeshina, told a news conference the man had arrived in Lagos from Liberia on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe patient was admitted and detained on suspicion of possible EBV (Ebola) infection, while blood sample collection and testing was initiated,\u201d she said in her statement.<\/p>\n<p>Samples had been sent to a World Health Organisation (WHO) laboratory in Dakar, she said, adding that \u201cresults are pending.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The virus \u00a0has killed 632 people across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since an outbreak began in February, straining a string of weak health systems despite international help.<\/p>\n<p>This would be the first recorded case of one of the world\u2019s deadliest diseases in Nigeria, Africa\u2019s biggest economy and most populous nation, with 170 million people and some of Africa\u2019s least adequate health infrastructure&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Liberia News\" href=\"http:\/\/businessdayonline.com\/2014\/07\/lagos-health-ministry-tests-liberian-for-ebola-virus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lagos State Ministry of Health in Nigeria, on Thursday, said it is testing a Liberian man, in his 40s, for the deadly Ebola virus. The special adviser on public health to the Lagos state government, Yewande Adeshina, told a news conference the man had arrived in Lagos from Liberia on Sunday. \u201cThe patient was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086,249],"tags":[258,256,3172,3173,1111,1110,3170,3171,2477,3168,4712,1107,257,254,3169,4692,447,1326],"class_list":["post-4436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas-biggest-economy","tag-africas-least-adequate-health-infrastructure","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-virus","tag-ebola-virus-in-nigeria","tag-ebv","tag-lagos","tag-lagos-state-ministry-of-health","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state-ministry-of-health","tag-west-africa","tag-who","tag-world-health-organisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}