--- title: Nigeria Confirms 2 New Ebola Cases description: The two are the first infected people who didn’t have contact with the ill traveler canonical: https://time.com/3159464/nigeria-ebola-lagos-abuja/ author: Denver Nicks article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-22T13:19:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:00:49.533Z article:section: Health og:title: Nigeria Confirms 2 New Ebola Cases og:description: The two are the first infected people who didn’t have contact with the ill traveler og:url: https://time.com/3159464/nigeria-ebola-lagos-abuja/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt694adbb269f3c130/6986a08ce53abae99c4d41e2/nigeria-ebola.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4848 og:image:height: 2727 og:image:alt: Nigeria Ebola og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Nigeria Confirms 2 New Ebola Cases twitter:description: The two are the first infected people who didn’t have contact with the ill traveler twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt694adbb269f3c130/6986a08ce53abae99c4d41e2/nigeria-ebola.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Nigeria Confirms 2 New Ebola Cases > Sponsored content. 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A look at the numbers behind the largest ebola outbreak on record, which has killed 670 people thus far._  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Aug 22, 2014 1:19 PM UTC  Nigerian health officials wait to screen passengers at the arrival hall of Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria on Aug. 4, 2014. Nigerian health officials wait to screen passengers at the arrival hall of Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria on Aug. 4, 2014. Sunday Alamba/AP  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Aug 22, 2014 1:19 PM UTC Nigeria’s health ministry [confirmed](http://time.com/3158890/nigeria-confirms-2-new-ebola-cases/) Friday two new cases of Ebola in the country, the first people to come down with the disease who didn’t have direct contact with an infected traveler who brought the virus into the country from nearby Liberia. Nigerian Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said both newly infected people are the spouses of two caregivers who contracted the virus and later died after giving treatment to Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American man who flew into the country infected with the virus last month. Sawyer passed Ebola on to 11 other individuals before he died. The two new infections plus Sawyer bring the total number of Ebola patients in Nigeria during this outbreak to 14, five of whom have died while another five have recovered. \[[_AP_](http://time.com/3158890/nigeria-confirms-2-new-ebola-cases/)\] ## Transcript The Ebola virus is highly contagious and one of the deadliest viruses in the world. A current outbreak is raging in the three West African states of Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea. The outbreak, which has killed over 670. People is the largest Ebola outbreak on record. It won't be considered over until no new confirmed cases appear for 42 days. There have been at least 1, 093 confirmed, probable, and suspected cases of Ebola in the current outbreak. Humans contract the virus from infected animals or other humans through contact with bodily fluids. Typically, the virus kills around 90 % of those who are infected. But thanks to early treatment, the number has dropped to 60 % in the current outbreak. Because it can take between 2 and 21 days for symptoms to show, health officials suggest keeping a 21 day fever watch. In addition to fever, other symptoms are headaches, joint pain, lack of appetite, difficulty breathing, and sore throat. In later stages, Ebola causes diarrhea, vomiting, and internal bleeding. Though it's been almost 40 years since the disease was first discovered in 1976, the grim reality is that there are currently no cures or effective treatments for the virus. 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