Nigerian doctor who treated Ebola dies

Abuja: A Nigerian doctor who treated an Ebola virus disease patient has died Tuesday in the country's southwestern state of Lagos, local authorities said.

The doctor, identified as Ameyo Stella Adadevoh, a senior consultant endocrinologist, died in an isolation facility at the Yaba Mainland General Hospital in Lagos, Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, said in a statement.

Medical sources said she had contracted the infection while treating Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, adding that she was in coma before her death Tuesday.

"Two other patients currently under treatment in the isolation wards are stable and are being taken care of," Chukwu said in a statement made available to Xinhua, noting that all fatalities recorded so far were of people who had close contact with Sawyer.

According to the official, the deceased doctor was one of the primary contacts of the Ebola virus disease case. The doctor's death takes the total number of Ebola fatalities in Nigeria to five.

The first was the death of Sawyer July 25.