Mr. Patrick Sawyer a WASH consultant at the Ministry of Finance, who had been quarantined since arriving Lagos, Nigeria on Sunday, July 20, 2014 with symptoms of the Ebola virus has died, according to reports.

A Liberian government official, speaking on condition of anonymity said the news of Sawyer’s death was relayed to Liberia by the Nigerian embassy, in the early hours of Friday, July 25, 2014.

The Lagos government health authorities announced on Thursday, July 24, 2014 that Sawyer was being tested for the deadly Ebola virus.

Sawyer’s death is the first recorded case of one of the world’s deadliest diseases in Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy and most populous nation, with 170 million people.

Ebola has killed 632 people across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since an outbreak began in February, straining a string of weak health systems despite international help.

The Director, National Centre for Diseases Control in Abuja, Nigeria, Professor Abdulsalami Nasidi informed that a multinational collaboration had been strategized among countries in the West-African sub-region.

Professor Nasidi called on health workers to be on red alert, advising the people to always maintain personal hygiene.

Ebola disease, the outbreak of which has been reported in few African countries is not airborne, but majorly transmitted by secretion such as sweat, blood, organs and tissues of infected animals and human.

Although the natural reservoir of the virus is not completely known, fruits bats have been considered to be the natural host.