Patrick Sawyer
Index case of the Ebola virus disease in Nigeria during the 2014 outbreak / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Patrick Oliver Sawyer (c.ā1974 - 24 July 2014) was a Liberian-American lawyer who was notable for being the index case for the introduction of Ebola virus disease into Nigeria during the West African Ebola epidemic in 2014. Sawyer was a naturalized U.S. citizen who lived in Coon Rapids, Minnesota.[1] He has been variously described as working for the Liberian Ministry of Finance[1] and for the mining company ArcelorMittal as their national manager for public health.[2][3] He was aged 40 at the time of his death.[4]