Thursday, 9 March 2017

July 2014: First Ebola Patient arrives in city of Lagos

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Patrick Oliver Sawyer was a Liberian-American lawyer who was notable for being the index case for the introduction of Ebola virus disease into Nigeria during the West African Ebola epidemic. Sawyer was a naturalized U.S. citizen who lived in Coon Rapids, Minnesota. He has been variously described as working for the Liberian Ministry of Finance  and for the mining company ArcelorMittal as their national manager for public health. He was 40 at the time of his death. he dies of Ebola five days later of his arrival in Lagos

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