Abuja - Nigeria on Monday revised down the number of
confirmed Ebola cases in the country to 13, including five
deaths, blaming the reporting of a 14th case on a false
positive.
Health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said there were three
people currently being treated at a special isolation unit
but that one was "for imminent discharge after necessary
protocols".
All five deaths from Ebola and confirmed cases have
occurred in the country's financial capital, Lagos, from a
single chain of transmission.
They include the first case - Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian-
American who died at a private hospital on July 25 -- and
three medical workers who treated him.
An official from the West African regional bloc ECOWAS,
who picked up Sawyer up from Lagos airport and took him
directly to hospital, also died.
Chukwu announced on Friday that the husband and wife of
two medical workers who died were also confirmed as
having Ebola -- the first cases of secondary contact in
Nigeria.
Five people who caught the deadly virus, which has killed
1,427 since the start of the year, mostly in Guinea, Sierra
Leone and Liberia, were treated and discharged, he added
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