Lagos Awaits Lab Results for Suspected Ebola Patient

Residents of Nigeria's largest city, Lagos, are anxiously awaiting lab results that will determine whether a visiting Liberian man has the ebola virus. The Lagos State Ministry of Health said Thursday that the man entered a private health facility soon after arriving on a flight from Monrovia on July 20. There is no indication the patient had been in contact with the virus, officials said, but he was placed in isolation because he exhibited ebola-like symptoms and had traveled to...

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