Tuesday 05 August 2014 15.12 Eight suspected cases of Ebola have been confirmed in Lagos, all in people who came into contact with Nigeria's first victim who died last month, the health commissioner said today, with one case confirmed.
Authorities have been monitoring anyone who came into close contact with Patrick Sawyer, a Liberia and US citizen who died of Ebola in Lagos last month.
The second confirmed case was a doctor who looked after him.
Health Commissioner Jide Idris, also said a further six people who had made contact with Mr Sawyer had been quarantined, but were not showing symptoms.
Meanwhile, the death toll from the Ebola epidemic in West Africa has reached 887, according to the World Health Organisation.
The WHO has described the response of some of the affected countries to the outbreak as being "woefully inadequate".
Hundreds of troops have been deployed in Sierra Leone and Liberia to quarantine communities hit by the deadly virus.
Healthcare systems in the two countries, as well as in Nigeria and Guinea, are struggling to cope with the epidemic.
The World Bank has announced up to €150m in emergency funding for medical supplies, salaries and other materials to tackle the outbreak.
Meanwhile, a second US aid worker who contracted the virus in West Africa is expected to arrive in Atlanta today.
A New York hospital is also testing a man with symptoms of the deadly disease.
A plane carrying missionary Nancy Writebol, 59, took off from Liberia yesterday headed to Atlanta.
She will be treated by infectious disease specialists in a special isolation ward at Emory University Hospital
Emory's specialists on Saturday began treating 33-year-old US doctor Kent Brantly, who also returned home after testing positive for Ebola.
Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan said yesterday it was testing a man who travelled to a West African nation where Ebola has been reported.
The man, who came into the emergency room yesterday morning with a high fever and a stomach ache was in "good condition".
Results of tests to find the cause of his symptoms are expected later today, hospital officials said at a news conference.
"Odds are it is not Ebola," said Dr Jeremy Boal, the hospital's chief medical officer. Still, the patient was rushed into strict isolation within seven minutes of his arrival at the hospital.
"I want to stress there is absolutely no risk from ... being in the emergency room," said Dr Boal, noting Ebola is not spread through casual contact.
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