--- title: Ebola Death Toll Rises to 887 as Nigeria Confirms Second Victim description: As total deaths from Ebola pass 800, Nigeria reports a doctor who treated their first victim now has the disease canonical: https://time.com/3079466/nigeria-second-ebola-victim/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-04T14:53:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:07:57.518Z article:section: Health og:title: Nigeria Reports Second Ebola Victim og:description: As total deaths from Ebola pass 800, Nigeria reports a doctor who treated their first victim now has the disease og:url: https://time.com/3079466/nigeria-second-ebola-victim/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33c9ed52e59fabf1/69869e0e55a85946d3a8205e/ap589074050886.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1223 og:image:height: 688 og:image:alt: CDC Ebola og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Nigeria Reports Second Ebola Victim twitter:description: As total deaths from Ebola pass 800, Nigeria reports a doctor who treated their first victim now has the disease twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33c9ed52e59fabf1/69869e0e55a85946d3a8205e/ap589074050886.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ebola Claims 887 Lives in Africa > Sponsored content. 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Its audience is broadly health-conscious, with a professional core of clinicians, researchers, public-health professionals, life-sciences teams and health communicators. by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Aug 4, 2014 2:53 PM UTC  The Ebola virus in an undated photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The Ebola virus in an undated photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC/AP by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Aug 4, 2014 2:53 PM UTC _Updated 1:34 p.m. ET_ Nigeria reported its second victim of the deadly Ebola outbreak Monday, as the World Health Organization[ said](http://who.int/csr/don/2014%5F08%5F04%5Febola/en/) the death toll from the virus in Africa increased to 887. A doctor who treated a Liberian-American man who died of the Ebola virus in Nigeria was confirmed Monday to be infected with the disease, making it the second case in the most populous African country. Nigeria’s Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu says there are test samples pending for another three people with symptoms of the disease who were part of the first man’s treatment, [the Associated Press reports](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AF%5FWEST%5FAFRICA%5FEBOLA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT), and officials are trying to identify and isolate other people who may be at risk. Emergence of the disease in Nigeria is cause for concern as the virus continues to spread. Health workers are at a particular risk for contracting the disease if they are not adequately protected, and it can take up to 21 days before symptoms of the infection begin to appear. There have been a total of 1,603 cases since the outbreak started in Guinea, the WHO said. One American with the disease has been [evacuated](http://time.com/3070012/ebola-virus-liberia-sierra-leone-guinea-africa/) to the U.S. for treatment, and another infected American is due to arrive home Tuesday. For the basics on Ebola, check out the infographic below. \[[_AP_](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AF%5FWEST%5FAFRICA%5FEBOLA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT)\]  Sources: WHO, CDC, Mayo Clinic ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3079466/nigeria-second-ebola-victim/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3079466/nigeria-second-ebola-victim/"},"headline":"Ebola Claims 887 Lives in Africa","datePublished":"2014-08-04T14:53:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:07:57.518Z","description":"As total deaths from Ebola pass 800, Nigeria reports a doctor who treated their first victim now has the disease","url":"https://time.com/3079466/nigeria-second-ebola-victim/","keywords":["Infectious Disease","Nigeria","ebola"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33c9ed52e59fabf1/69869e0e55a85946d3a8205e/ap589074050886.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt33c9ed52e59fabf1/69869e0e55a85946d3a8205e/ap589074050886.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"CDC Ebola","caption":"CDC Ebola","creditText":"CDC/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/infectious-disease/","name":"Infectious Disease"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3079466/nigeria-second-ebola-victim/","name":"Ebola Claims 887 Lives in Africa"}}]}] ```