Nigeria is contemplating asking for a dose of the experimental Ebola drug given to two Americans to treat a Nigerian doctor who contracted the virus, said Jide Idris, commissioner for health in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos.
The female doctor who treated a Liberian victim of Ebola before he was diagnosed is receiving care in a hospital in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital and Africa’s most populous city with about 21 million people.
Eight others have been quarantined with three awaiting testing.
Idris, speaking at a media conference, said the committee set up by the Nigerian government to manage the situation was taking necessary perceptional measures to stop the spread of the disease and that the contacts of the infected medical doctor are being traced for close examination.
