Dan
Nwomeh, a Ministry of Health spokesman, said Thursday that a doctor in Port
Harcourt has died from Ebola fever.
The
doctor was infected he treated a primary contact of Patrick Sawyer, the
Liberian-American who brought the dreaded disease to Nigeria.
His
death brings the number of Ebola fatalities in Nigeria to 6.
The
total number of recorded cases had risen by two to 15, the other one being the
wife of the doctor who is showing Ebola symptoms and whose test results are
awaited.
Nwomeh
said 70 contacts of the doctor were now under surveillance in Port Harcourt.
The
news came two days after Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said
