--- 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Nigeria Confirms 2 New Ebola Cases ## Video: Ebola: The Deadly Virus Outbreak Explained [Watch (HLS stream): Ebola: The Deadly Virus Outbreak Explained](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/oB7TO3G5.m3u8) (1:36)  _Published 2014-07-29. 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. \[[_AP_](http://time.com/3158890/nigeria-confirms-2-new-ebola-cases/)\] Nigeria Confirms 2 New Ebola Cases ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3159464/nigeria-ebola-lagos-abuja/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3159464/nigeria-ebola-lagos-abuja/"},"headline":"Nigeria Confirms 2 New Ebola Cases","datePublished":"2014-08-22T13:19:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:00:49.533Z","description":"The two are the first infected people who didn’t have contact with the ill traveler","url":"https://time.com/3159464/nigeria-ebola-lagos-abuja/","keywords":["ebola","Nigeria","Liberia","Lagos"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt694adbb269f3c130/6986a08ce53abae99c4d41e2/nigeria-ebola.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Denver Nicks","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt694adbb269f3c130/6986a08ce53abae99c4d41e2/nigeria-ebola.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Nigeria Ebola","caption":"Nigeria Ebola","creditText":"Sunday Alamba/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/ebola/","name":"ebola"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3159464/nigeria-ebola-lagos-abuja/","name":"Nigeria Confirms 2 New Ebola Cases"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Ebola: The Deadly Virus Outbreak Explained","description":"A look at the numbers behind the largest ebola outbreak on record, which has killed 670 people thus far.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/oB7TO3G5/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-07-29T20:36:01.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/oB7TO3G5.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3159464/nigeria-ebola-lagos-abuja/","duration":"PT1M36S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3159464/nigeria-ebola-lagos-abuja/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```