Nigeria fears as man falls ill with Ebola-like symptoms

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Nigeria fears as man falls ill with Ebola-like symptoms

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nigeria-fears-man-falls-ill-ebola-symptoms-155958935.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/3K70gVCd_.2zLfF8kaj2Kg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/Part-REF-TS-Par7919796-1-1-0.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="A picture taken on June 28, 2014 shows a health worker with 'Doctors Without Borders' putting on protective gear at an Ebola isolation ward inside the Donka Hospital in Guinea's capital Conakry" align="left" title="A picture taken on June 28, 2014 shows a health worker with 'Doctors Without Borders' putting on protective gear at an Ebola isolation ward inside the Donka Hospital in Guinea's capital Conakry" border="0" /></a>A Liberian man has been hospitalised in Lagos with Ebola-like symptoms, but it is not yet clear if he is infected with the killer virus, Nigerian officials said Thursday. The 40-year-old Monrovia resident arrived in Nigeria's mega-city on Sunday and was admitted to hospital on Tuesday suffering from severe vomiting and diarrhoea, said Yewande Adesina, the special advisor on health for the Lagos state government. The patient was &quot;detained for possible Ebola infection while blood samples were sent to the Virology Reference Laboratory in Lagos as well as to the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Dakar,&quot; she said.</p><br clear="all"/>

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