Nigerian health officials wait to screen
passengers at the arrival hall of Murtala Muhammed International Airport
in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014.
The World Health Organization says the death toll from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has risen to 932.
The
new figures come Wednesday as authorities in Nigeria confirmed the
death of a nurse of Ebola. Saudi Arabia also announced one death of a
person with Ebola-like symptoms. More pics after cut....
The outbreak emerged in March in
Guinea and shows no sign of slowing down. Most of the new deaths are
coming from Liberia and Sierra Leone.
There now have been 363
deaths in Guinea, 282 in Liberia, 286 in Sierra Leone and one confirmed
death in Nigeria, according to WHO's statistics as of Aug. 4.
Nigerian health officials wait to
screen passengers at the arrivals hall of Murtala Muhammed International
Airport in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014.
A Nigerian health official wearing a
protective suit waits to screen passengers at the arrivals hall of
Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, Aug.
4, 2014
Passengers are seen at the Murtala
Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014.
Nigeria health official display a
leaflet explaining Ebola Virus Disease at the arrival hall of Murtala
Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014.
Passengers queue for their passport
document check by immigration officers at the arrivals hall of Murtala
Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014.
A man reads a local newspaper with
headline news about a Lagos female doctor contracts Ebola Virus, in
Lagos, Nigeria, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. Lagos State Health Commissioner
Jide Idris announced Tuesday that eight people are being kept in
quarantine with symptoms of Ebola.
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