ECOWAS Staff Dies From Ebola Virus In Nigeria

Nigeria has recorded its third number of deaths from the Ebola virus after an ECOWAS official was reported to have died from the virus in the country...
The West African regional bloc made the announcement on Tuesday, 12 August, 2014, in an official statement.

Health workers attending to a patient of Ebola virus.

“The ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) Commission announces with deep regret the passing of a staff member of its Lagos Liaison Office, Mr Jatto Asihu Abdulqudir, aged 36,” it said in a statement.
“Mr Abdulqudir, a protocol assistant, was among those who assisted the Liberian delegate to a regional meeting Mr Patrick Sawyer, who died from the Ebola Virus Disease at a Lagos hospital on 25th July 2014.”
It was gathered that the late ECOWAS official had been quarantined since Sawyer was confirmed as having Ebola, which has killed more than 1,000 people since the start of the year, most of them in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.