Nigeria Confirms Ebola Cases From Secondary Contact

Nigeria's health minister has confirmed the country's first cases of Ebola in people who did not have direct contact with Patrick Sawyer, an infected Liberian-American who traveled to Lagos from Liberia. Onyebuchi Chukwu says the spouses of two Ebola patients who had contact with Sawyer have also become infected. Chukwu said Friday that the total number of confirmed infections in Nigeria had risen to 14. He said five people have died from the virus. Senegal seals...

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