Nigeria reported its first Ebola case \u200bin about a decade on Tuesday after a foreign woman living in the \u200ccapital tested positive for the viral infection after arriving from Uganda.<\/p>\n
A senior public health official told a local television station the woman is “originally from Uganda and so made a quick travel to Uganda.”<\/p>\n
Uganda’s health ministry said \u200bshe had travelled to Democratic Republic of Congo, which is battling the world’s second-largest Ebola \u200boutbreak on record with more than 9,000 cases and more than 4,000 deaths \u2060so far.<\/p>\n
Odianosen Ehiakhamen, the assistant director of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, \u200btold Arise TV the Ebola patient arrived in Nigeria on October 5 and started feeling unwell \u200bon October 7.<\/p>\n
She sought treatment in a private hospital on October 11 for malaria-like symptoms and was tested for Ebola on October 19, Ehiakhamen added.<\/p>\n
Most of the 44 contacts traced so far are healthcare workers and \u200bthe patient’s husband, a Swiss national who lives with her in Abuja.<\/p>\n
UGANDA SAYS IT HAS <\/strong>\u200b<\/strong>NO ACTIVE EBOLA CASES<\/strong><\/p>\n Health authorities are also tracing passengers who travelled with her on the same Ethiopian Airlines \u200cflights from \u2060Uganda but they do not think she was symptomatic while flying.<\/p>\n Nigerian Health Minister Muhammad Ali Pate told public broadcaster NTA that the woman was in isolation and receiving quality medical care.<\/p>\n Uganda’s health ministry said in a statement that “travel through Uganda does not establish that infection occurred here.”<\/p>\n It \u200badded that Uganda had “no \u200bconfirmed active Ebola cases.”<\/p>\n Pate \u2060said Nigeria had successfully contained Ebola in 2014 and had the systems in place to respond to the new case.<\/p>\n Congo’s Ebola outbreak was \u200bdeclared in mid-May but may have started months earlier, caused by the \u200brare Bundibugyo \u2060strain.<\/p>\n Uganda reported 20 cases in May and June, mostly imported from Congo, but was declared free of the virus by the World Health Organization in August.<\/p>\n Kenya has reported nine Ebola cases this month, all linked \u2060to a \u200bperson who had travelled from Congo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nigeria reported its first Ebola case \u200bin about a decade on Tuesday after a foreign woman living in the \u200ccapital tested positive for the viral infection after arriving from Uganda. A senior public health official told a local television station the woman is “originally from Uganda and so made a quick travel to Uganda.” Uganda’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":6,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"Reuters","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2362,2854,27],"tags":[3016,132],"class_list":["post-22345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-health","category-west-africa","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo-drc","tag-uganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22346,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22345\/revisions\/22346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}