Fears of a global Ebola pandemic are 'justified' an expert has said after a U.S. citizen boarded a flight in Liberia carrying the disease to Nigeria, potentially infecting 'anyone on the same plane'. Nigerian health officials are in the process of trying to trace 30,000 people, believed to be at risk of contracting the highly-infectious virus, following the death of Patrick Sawyer in Lagos on Friday. continue...
It comes as Nigerian actor Jim Iyke, right, sparked outrage, posting a picture of himself wearing an Ebola mask while sitting in a first class airport lounge as he fled Liberia. The death toll for this, the worst outbreak recorded, since the Ebola virus was discovered in 1976, stands at 672, while more than 1,200 people have been infected, centre. The disease has swept through Western Africa, left, having first been detected in Guinea in February. Since then victims have succumbed to the incurable illness, which starts with flu-like symptoms before evolving to cause catastrophic internal bleeding, in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
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