The current outbreak is getting bigger and bigger. From the UK Independent:
Deadly Ebola virus spreads to Nigeria by plane as Sierra Leone hunts kidnapped patient
The Ebola virus that has already killed 660 people across West Africa has spread to Nigeria after a Liberian man boarded a plane to the country, the most populous in the continent.
He managed to board the flight despite of having a high fever. Once on the plane he vomited, before dying in Nigeria.
Just wonderful - it is airborne so everyone on the plane has been exposed. More:
Nigerian health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said it was the first case of Ebola to be confirmed in Nigeria since the start of the current outbreak in the region. The disease has already hit Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, infecting 1,093.
In Sierra Leone, officials are hunting the first known resident of the capital Freetown to test positive for the disease after the family of the woman forcibly removed her from a hospital in the city.
Saudatu Koroma, 32, a resident of the densely populated Wellington neighbourhood, had been admitted to an isolation ward while blood samples were analysed, health ministry spokesman Sidi Yahya Tunis. The results came back on Thursday.
“The family of the patient stormed the hospital and forcefully removed her and took her away,” Tunis said. “We are searching for her.”
Fighting one of the world's deadliest diseases is straining the region's weak health systems, while a lack of information and suspicion of medical staff has led many to shun treatment.
According to health ministry data and officials, dozens of people confirmed by laboratory tests to have Ebola are now unaccounted for in Sierra Leone, where the majority of cases have been recorded in the country's east.
No cure or vaccine, the current strain is killing 60% of those infected and it is thriving in urban areas and transportation hubs whereas prior outbreaks had been confined to rural areas.
