Mr. Patrick Sawyer, a WASH
consultant at the Ministry of Finance, who had been quarantined since falling
ill after arriving in the Nigerian state of Lagos for a conference last Sunday,
has died, allafrica.com says.
A Liberian government official,
speaking on condition of anonymity said the news of Sawyer's death was relayed
to Liberia by the Nigerian embassy, early Friday morning.
Nigerian government health
authorities announced Thursday that Sawyer, 40 was being tested for the deadly
Ebola virus in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos. Sawyer's death is the first
recorded case of one of the world's deadliest diseases in Nigeria.
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