Ebola: Two Lagos doctors, nurse, woman discharged

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Four more people who had been undergoing treatment for the Ebola Virus Disease were on Monday discharged from the Lagos treatment centre after being certified free.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, made this known in a statement that was issued on Monday after Natural Solutions Foundation, the manufacturers of Nano Silver,claimed that the drug was the only one capable of curing the deadly virus.
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He explained that the three medical personnel participated in the treatment of the Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer, who was the first person to die of the disease in Nigeria.
The Minister of Health has announced that four additional confirmed cases of EVD who have been managed successfully and are now disease free have been discharged today(Monday).
Chukwu had on Saturday, announced that a female doctor , who was the first Nigerian to be diagnosed of EVD, had been discharged .
He had also said that Nigeria had recorded 12 cases of EVD, including four deaths. The number of Nigerians under surveillance in Lagos and Enugu, according to him, is 195.
“Affected countries are requested to conduct exit screening of all persons at international airports, seaports and major land crossings, for unexplained febrile illness consistent with potential Ebola infection. Any person with an illness consistent with EVD should not be allowed to travel unless the travel is part of an appropriate medical evacuation,” it stressed.

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