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====2014 Ebola outbreak====
{{Further|Ebola in Nigeria}}
On 20 July 2014, [[Patrick Sawyer]], a Liberian-American, flew from [[Monrovia]] to [[Murtala Muhammed International Airport]] in [[Lagos]], with a stopover at [[Lomé]], Togo.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Oduyemi|first1=Rachael O.|last2=Ayegboyin|first2=Matthew|last3=Salami|first3=Kabiru K.|date=2016|title=Perceptions of Ebola virus disease in Nigeria: Understanding the influence of imagination on health orientation|journal=International Journal of Nursing Practice|language=en|volume=22|issue=3|pages=291–299|doi=10.1111/ijn.12425|pmid=27080239|issn=1440-172X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Ebola: Why Patrick Sawyer travelled to Nigeria – Wife |url=https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/166660-ebola-why-patrick-sawyer-travelled-to-nigeria-wife.html|last=Ibekwe|first=Nicholas|date=13 August 2014|language=en-GB|access-date=31 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak – Nigeria, July–September 2014|url=https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6339a5.htm|website=www.cdc.gov|access-date=31 May 2020}}</ref> He was subsequently described as having appeared to be "terribly ill" when he left Monrovia. Sawyer became violently ill upon arriving at the airport and died five days later. In response, the Nigerian government observed all of Sawyer's contacts for signs of infection and increased surveillance at all entry points to the country.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ebola outbreak kills an American|url=https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/29/health/ebola-outbreak-american-dies/index.html|first= Jacque |last=Wilson|website=CNN|date=29 July 2014|access-date=30 May 2020}}</ref>

On 6 August 2014, the Nigerian health minister told reporters: "Yesterday, the first known Nigerian to die of Ebola was recorded.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ebola outbreak: nurse who treated first victim in Nigeria dies|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/06/ebola-outbreak-nurse-nigeria-dies|date=2014-08-06|website=the Guardian|language=en|access-date=2020-05-31}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=My encounter with Patrick Sawyer— Adadevoh|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/encounter-patrick-sawyer-adadevoh/|date=2014-08-23|website=Vanguard News|language=en-US|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> This was one of the nurses that attended to the Liberian. The other five newly confirmed cases are being treated at an isolation ward." The doctor who treated Sawyer, [[Ameyo Adadevoh]], subsequently also died of Ebola. On 22 September 2014, the Nigeria ministry of health announced: "As of today, there is no case of Ebola in Nigeria. All listed contacts who were under surveillance have been followed up for 21 days.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Otu|first1=Akaninyene|last2=Ameh|first2=Soter|last3=Osifo-Dawodu|first3=Egbe|last4=Alade|first4=Enoma|last5=Ekuri|first5=Susan|last6=Idris|first6=Jide|date=2017-07-10|title=An account of the Ebola virus disease outbreak in Nigeria: implications and lessons learnt|journal=BMC Public Health|volume=18|issue=1|page=3|doi=10.1186/s12889-017-4535-x|issn=1471-2458|pmc=5504668|pmid=28693453 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak – Nigeria, July–September 2014|url=https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6339a5.htm|website=www.cdc.gov|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> "According to the [[World Health Organization|WHO]], 20 cases and 8 deaths had been confirmed, along with the imported case, who also died. Four of the dead were health care workers who had cared for Sawyer. In all, 529 contacts had been followed and of that date they had all completed a 21-day mandatory period of surveillance.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Shuaib|first1=Faisal|last2=Gunnala|first2=Rajni|last3=Musa|first3=Emmanuel O.|last4=Mahoney|first4=Frank J.|last5=Oguntimehin|first5=Olukayode|last6=Nguku|first6=Patrick M.|last7=Nyanti|first7=Sara Beysolow|author-link7=Sara Beysolow Nyanti|last8=Knight|first8=Nancy|last9=Gwarzo|first9=Nasir Sani|last10=Idigbe|first10=Oni|last11=Nasidi|first11=Abdulsalam|date=3 October 2014|title=Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak – Nigeria, July–September 2014|journal=MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report|volume=63|issue=39|pages=867–872|issn=0149-2195|pmc=4584877|pmid=25275332}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=WHO: EBOLA RESPONSE ROADMAP UPDATE|url=https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/136161/roadmapupdate10Oct14_eng.pdf;jsessionid=69E1E8294EA3AEB35CC8054F3B11F503?sequence=1|author=World Health Organisation|date=2014|website=WHO}}</ref>