Ebola virus disease in Nigeria | |
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Disease | Ebolavirus |
First outbreak | Patrick Sawyer |
Index case | 6 August 2014 |
Confirmed cases | 20 |
Deaths | 8 |
Cases of the Ebola virus disease in Nigeria were reported in 2014 as a small part of the epidemic of Ebola virus disease (commonly known as "Ebola") which originated in Guinea that represented the first outbreak of the disease in a West African country. Previous outbreaks had been confined to countries in Central Africa.[1][2]