400 On Ebola Watch In Rivers State

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control Projector, Dr. Abdulsalami Nasidi, has disclosed that the health ministry is monitoring about 400 people in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for signs of Ebola virus disease.
Nasidi added that these people are being placed under observation after they came in contact with the late medical doctor, Iyke Enemuo, who died of the disease in Port Harcourt on 22 August, 2014.
These details were stated by Nasidi on Thursday in Geneva, Switzerland, during a two-day World Health Organisation experts meeting aimed at speeding development of Ebola drugs and vaccines.
Nasidi noted that there was a sense of “hopelessness” due to the lack of proven drugs or vaccines to treat the deadly disease that had infected 18 people in Nigeria.