Dr.
Abdulsalami Nasidi, project director at Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, has
said about 400 people are being monitored for signs of Ebola after they came in
contact with a Port Harcourt doctor who died of the disease but hid the fact
that he had been exposed.
Nasidi
said, on Thursday, there was a sense of “hopelessness” due to the lack of
proven drugs or vaccines to treat Ebola that has infected 18 people in Africa’s
most populous nation.
In
an interview with Reuters in Geneva, he said that more isolation wards were
being opened in the oil industry hub but voiced confidence that there would not
be “many cases” there.
After
having contact with an Ebola patient and before his own death on
