– Virus like ‘animal in cage’ –
Nabarro, who has already visited Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea as part of a tour of Ebola-hit nations, arrived in Nigeria on Wednesday.
Nigeria’s health minister warned against complacency in the country’s fight against Ebola, despite only one patient remaining in hospital isolation with the virus after seven patients recovered.
“Nigeria has been successful at containment. But have we eliminated the disease? No,” he told reporters, likening the situation to trapping a wild animal in a cage.
The emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders (Medecins sans Frontieres) in Sierra Leone, nurse Anja Wolz, has also warned in the New England Journal of Medicine that the international response to the outbreak is “dangerously inadequate”. READ: Ebola taking toll on west African economy.
A Senegalese WHO doctor, who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone, meanwhile arrived in a German hospital, the first patient with the virus to be treated in the country, said Hamburg health department spokesman Rico Schmidt.
And a health worker with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention returned to the United States after possible exposure to Ebola while also working in Sierra Leone, the agency said.
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