Nigeria confirms Ebola case linked to East Africa - BBC
Nigeria has confirmed a case of Ebola in a diplomat's wife who recently traveled from Uganda to Abuja. Health authorities have initiated contact tracing for 44 individuals to prevent an outbreak similar to the 2014 crisis.
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Ebola is a highly infectious and deadly disease; rapid containment is critical to preventing regional or global health crises.
Share Save Add as preferred on Google Simi Jolaoso , Africa correspondent , Makuochi Okafor , BBC Africa, Lagos , Patrick Jackson and Mansur Abubakar , Abuja AFP via Getty Images Medics across Africa, including these nurses pictured during a training drill in Kenya, have been on high alert since May Nigeria has recorded a case of Ebola in a female patient who travelled from Uganda in East Africa to Abuja, capital of the West African state.
Health Minister Muhammad Ali Pate said the diagnosis had been confirmed by laboratory tests.
The patient, who health sources have told the BBC is not Nigerian and is the wife of a diplomat, is in isolation and receiving medical care after being admitted to a hospital in Abuja.
She developed symptoms on Wednesday 7 October, four days after arriving in the country, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
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