LAGOS, Nigeria (MyFoxBoston.com/AP) -- In the US, the CDC has raised the Ebola response level as high as it can go, and in Nigeria authorities are preparing to keep the virus from spreading after a death and additional cases were reported there.
The Ebola response level has been increased to a Level 1 by the CDC, Fox News reported Wednesday. The CDC made the change due to the virus extending to Nigeria, which means the outbreak has the potential of affecting many more lives.
Nigerian authorities rushed to obtain isolation tents Wednesday in anticipation of more Ebola infections as they disclosed five more cases of the virus and a death in Africa's most populous nation, where officials were racing to keep the gruesome disease confined to a small group of patients.
The five new Nigerian cases were all in Lagos, a megacity of 21 million people in a country already beset with poor health care infrastructure and widespread corruption, and all five were reported to have had direct contact with one infected man.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization began a meeting to decide whether the crisis, the worst recorded outbreak of its kind, amounts to an international public health emergency. At least 932 deaths in four countries have been blamed on the illness, with 1,711 reported cases.
Doctors at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta say their two American patients infected with the virus are both stable after their arrivals in the states over the past few days.
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