--- description: The two are the first infected people who didn’t have contact with the ill traveler title: Nigeria Confirms 2 New Ebola Cases image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt694adbb269f3c130/6986a08ce53abae99c4d41e2/nigeria-ebola.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Health](/section/health/) ## Health Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [ebola](/tag/ebola/) ## ebola Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # 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](/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 22, 2014 1:19 PM CUT  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](/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 22, 2014 1:19 PM CUT Nigeria’s health ministry [confirmed](http://time.com/3158890/nigeria-confirms-2-new-ebola-cases/ "undefined") 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. \[[_AP_](http://time.com/3158890/nigeria-confirms-2-new-ebola-cases/ "undefined")\] ```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":"2026-02-21T09:48:24.745Z","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"}}] ```