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Ebola: Nigeria has no active case after patient’s evacuation — WHO
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The World Health Organization's Regional Director for Africa, Mohamed Janabi, said Nigeria currently has no active Ebola case after the country evacuated its index patient and her husband to Switzerland on Monday. Nigeria's Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Pate, confirmed the evacuation from Abuja and said the patient was clinically much improved, stable and conscious, with test results moving towards baseline, but cautioned she was still potentially infectious. Both are Swiss citizens; the patient, the wife of a Swiss diplomat, arrived in Nigeria on 3 October from Uganda and was confirmed infected on 20 October with the Bundibugyo virus. Pate said her husband remained asymptomatic. Janabi said Nigeria will continue following 52 contacts, while Switzerland will manage the patient and monitor contact number 53, her husband. Janabi called the outcome a testament to African public health capacity.
Where accounts differ. Premium Times alone reports that the WHO cited 9,704 confirmed cases and 4,687 deaths in the DRC and nine cases in Kenya, and that the patient's husband is listed as contact 53.
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