The Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, has cautioned that Nigerians should not be carried away with the euphoria of the successful containment of the Ebola Virus Disease.
Professor Chukwu said on tuesday in Abuja, after the Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday that “the risk of transmission still exists as long as there is still Ebola Virus disease in West Africa”.
“I don’t want Nigerians to panic but I don’t want us to be carried away with euphoria because if we still have one case of Ebola Virus Disease, it is an emergency because the World Health Organization defines Ebola epidemic as when one person is infected with the disease. We have to be cautious as long as there is still a victim in the country,” the Health Minister added.
According to the Health Minister, 13 cases have been reported so far, out of which five persons died while seven had been managed successfully and discharged, leaving Nigeria with only one case.
He told reporters on Tuesday that the patient, who is a spouse to one of the health workers that attended to the index patient, Patrick Sawyer, was responding to treatment.
