5 Others Confirmed With Disease….Nigeria recorded its first known fatality from Ebola virus infection with the death of a nurse in Lagos, the commercial capital, Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said.

The nurse had attended to Liberian government worker Patrick Sawyer, who became sick from the virus after arriving on a flight to Lagos and later died on July 25.

Five other cases are being treated in Lagos, Chukwu said in a statement handed to reporters today in Abuja, the capital of Africa’s most populous country of about 170 million people.

Nigeria may try to obtain some of the experimental Ebola therapy given to two Americans who contracted the disease in Liberia, Jide Idris, Lagos health commissioner, told reporters yesterday.

The outbreak of the Ebola virus has killed 887 people, according to the World Health Organization. Most of the cases are in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, on West Africa’s Atlantic coast. Nigeria does not share a border with any of those countries.