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Nigeria ends 21-day Ebola contact monitoring with no secondary transmission
Thirteen symptomatic contacts tested negative as authorities said WHO rules require 42 days before an official end-of-outbreak declaration.
- On Friday, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the 21-day monitoring period for 62 contacts linked to Nigeria's imported Ebola case has concluded with none falling ill.
- Nigeria confirmed its first Ebola case in over a decade on October 20 in a Swiss woman who had traveled to Uganda and returned to Nigeria; she and her husband were evacuated to Switzerland.
- Thirteen contacts reported fever or other non-specific symptoms during monitoring, but all 13 tested negative for the virus. The NCDC investigated seven Ebola alerts across five Nigerian states, finding all seven tested negative.
- The NCDC cautioned that completing contact monitoring does not mean the outbreak is over, emphasizing that the disease threat remains under assessment.
- According to WHO protocols, a country must complete a full 42-day countdown from the recovery or departure of the last confirmed patient before an official end-of-outbreak declaration can be made.
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