Days after the death of one person who was suspected to die out of the Ebola virus symptoms, WHO (world health organisation) has confirmed the suspect to be negative after series of blood test were carried out. the test result has revealed that the man has neither Ebola or lassal fever in his blood.
September 2015 marked one year after the nation was declared Ebola free and this incident has been the very first to be heard since then, though a false alarm.
After the hypothetical reviews on the mans sickness symptoms were linked to possible Ebola virus, a circuit was created immediately running a contact analysis on who he came in contact with for the past 24 hours as that was the possible time he could had become contagious.
A result from the circuit analysis ran along the man discovered 14 potential people whom he had come in contact with for the time serving.
The 14 people are currently under quarantine. This reports were made directly by WHO spokesman from the Calabar teaching hospital southwest Nigeria.
Since the Ebola outbreak in the dawn of 2014 there is no week a new case was not reported but recently precisely Wednesday October 7th, marks the first seven days without a new case report in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia who is worst affected areas in west Africa for the past 1year +.
A total of 11,005 people had died from the Ebola 2014 outbreak which is the worst out break statistics of the virus since its emergence in 1979. In west Africa, 90 percent of the effect were on Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia alone.
WHO has stated that there's been fall in the weekly reports/new cases over the past few months but had warned for caution as the outbreak might strike again which could be worse than experienced or not.
On quarantine includes nurses on duty in the teaching hospital, and some of the mans family members who were staying with him. Two residence who visited the man two days before his death were also taking in said Queeneth Kalu the hospitals chief MD.
The older case in Nigeria was triggered on July 2014 when a Liberian business man collapsed in an airport and was diagnosed of the virus which led to a quarantine. Days after, several suspected reports were brought for confirmation. a total of seven people died in the nearly 3 weeks outbreak/quarantine in Nigeria which is fair in comparison with the worst hit countries like Liberia and Guinea.
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