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Dead doctor’s widow shows Ebola signs
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THE widow of a doctor who died from Ebola in Nigeria’s oil city of Port Harcourt has also tested positive for the virus, the state government said yesterday.
Rivers State health commissioner Sampson Parker said test results showed the woman had the disease, which claimed the life of her husband, Ike Enemuo, on August 22.
Enemuo fell ill and died after treating an official from the ECOWAS regional bloc who travelled to Port Harcourt after having contact with a Liberian man who brought the virus into Nigeria.
The doctor was the sixth to die from the virus in Nigeria and the first outside Lagos, raising fears about the spread of the haemmorhagic fever just as it was thought to have been contained.
Parker said three patients — another doctor, a pharmacist and a woman who had contact with Enemuo at the hospital where he died — had been taken to a specialist treatment center outside the city.
Enemuo’s widow was at an isolation unit in Lagos, he added.
“They have not been confirmed (as having Ebola) and we are waiting for the result of the investigation,” Parker told a news conference.
Some 200 primary and secondary contacts have been traced, although about 60 had yet to be spoken to, he added.
None of them had shown symptoms, he said.
“We are concentrating on the names we have to capture in our (monitoring) activities.”
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