Nigeria ends 21-day Ebola contact monitoring with no secondary transmission
Summary
Nigeria completed a 21-day monitoring period for 62 people who had contact with its first Ebola patient in more than a decade. None developed Ebola, and 13 people with symptoms tested negative; Nigeria must complete a 42-day countdown after the last confirmed patient’s recovery or departure before declaring the outbreak over.Key Facts
- Nigeria confirmed its first Ebola case in more than a decade on October 20.
- The patient was a Swiss woman who had travelled to Uganda and then returned to Nigeria.
- The patient and her husband were evacuated to Switzerland, where she recovered and was discharged from hospital.
- None of the 62 identified contacts developed Ebola during monitoring.
- Thirteen contacts reported fever or other non-specific symptoms, but all tested negative for Ebola.
- Nigeria investigated seven Ebola alerts across five states in the previous three weeks; all seven tested negative.
- The ongoing outbreak has been reported in eight provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Uganda, France, Kenya and Nigeria.
- Government data cited for the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo show more than 11,000 infections and more than 5,000 deaths.
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