Nigeria: Ebola - How Months of Ebola Preparedness Helped Nigeria Confirm First Case Within 24 Hours
Health officials identified 44 close contacts and isolated the patient as Nigeria moved quickly to contain its first imported Ebola case.
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The Ebola outbreak in Africa is becoming more difficult to contain after the virus spread from East Africa to Nigeria. The country has confirmed its first case of the “Bundiboujo” strain, and health authorities are tracing 44 people who were in contact with the infected patient. The woman is the wife of a diplomat who Nigerian authorities say traveled to Uganda. The case is linked to the outbreak that began in the Democratic Republic of Congo an…
Nigeria is the fourth country affected by the epidemic that has been spreading throughout the continent since this week.
On Thursday, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that Africa was facing a "more complex" Ebola epidemic, as the virus travelled from East Africa to Nigeria, which reported the first case in the west of the continent.
Nigeria: Ebola - How Months of Ebola Preparedness Helped Nigeria Confirm First Case Within 24 Hours
Mr Pate described the response as a continuation of Nigeria's experience in managing public health emergencies, recalling how the country contained the Ebola outbreak in 2014.
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