Ebola outbreak: Nigeria's health minister says man from Liberia dies from virus on trip to Lagos.
Nigeria's health minister claims a Liberian man who died in the commercial capital of Lagos has tested positive for the deadly Ebola virus.
If confirmed, the man would be the first case on record of one of the world's deadliest diseases in Nigeria, Africa's biggest economy, and with 170 million people, its most populous country.
Ebola has killed 660 people across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since it was first diagnosed in February.
The victim, named as Patrick Sawyer, a consultant in his 40s who worked for the Liberian finance ministry, collapsed on Sunday after flying into Lagos and was taken from the airport and put in isolation in a local hospital.
Nigeria's health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu announced Mr Sawyer had died on Friday.
"His blood sample was taken to the advance laboratory at the Lagos university teaching hospital, which confirmed the diagnosis of the Ebola virus disease in the patient
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