WHO opens a regional Ebola response centre. Nigeria reports its first fatality: Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American man who arrived by airplane five days earlier dies in Lagos.

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He is the first American to die of what officials are calling "deadliest Ebola outbreak in history." An American aid worker in Liberia tests positive for Ebola. According to Samaritan's Purse, Nancy Writebol is infected while treating Ebola patients in Liberia. The first case in the capital city of Sierra Leone, Freetown, is recorded.

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Friday, 25 July, 2014