Nigeria races to halt Ebola spread in overcrowded Lagos

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Nigeria races to halt Ebola spread in overcrowded Lagos

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nigeria-races-halt-ebola-spread-overcrowded-lagos-171525806.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/rCp3Lj_5T9QwooZEE_iqhg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-08-12T173226Z_1007000002_LYNXMPEA7B0QJ_RTROPTP_2_CNEWS-US-HEALTH-EBOLA-NIGERIA-INSIGHT.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Immigration officer wears a face mask at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja" align="left" title="Immigration officer wears a face mask at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja" border="0" /></a>By Tim Cocks LAGOS (Reuters) - When Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer collapsed at Lagos airport, he brought Ebola into a potentially ideal place for the deadly virus to spread - a vast, dirty, overcrowded city where tracing carriers and their contacts is a major problem. Lagos has now had 10 cases of Ebola, an illness spread by contact with the fluids of an infected person. As Africa's biggest economy, Nigeria has a better health system than the other west African countries which are among the poorest in the world, and Ebola doesn't spread through the air or water supply as with many other epidemic diseases. &quot;Lagos is big, it's crowded.</p><br clear="all"/>

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