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The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, Dr Mohamed Janabi, says Nigeria currently has no Ebola cases following the medical evacuation of the patient and her husband to Switzerland.
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He, however, cautioned that the patient’s improved condition does not mean she is no longer infectious, stressing that strict public health protocols remain in place.
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“Ebola Virus Disease is a severe illness that can be fatal. It spreads through direct contact with the blood and other body fluids of an infected person”
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What happens when the emergency passes? Do the taps still run? Are protective supplies replenished? Can hospitals still isolate suspected cases safely? And do health workers have the equipment?
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“We still have only one confirmed case. The contacts have been traced, quarantined, and we are conducting additional tests, some of which are negative and others are pending”
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The first clinical trial of an Ebola vaccine in the outbreak gripping the Democratic Republic of Congo began Friday, WHO said.
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On October 20, 2014, WHO declared Nigeria free of Ebola. On October 20, 2026, the confirmation of an imported case of Ebola Bundibugyo virus disease in Abuja reopened an uncomfortable question
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Nigeria announced its first Ebola case on Tuesday, the wife of a staff member at Switzerland’s embassy in Abuja, who had returned from Uganda on October 3.
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Switzerland’s foreign ministry said Friday she was “the wife of a Swiss member of staff” at Bern’s embassy in the Nigerian capital Abuja.
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“They found the rhyme, wrote a lengthy press statement about it and somehow still could not tell Nigerians where the ₦10 billion ordered released for Ebola preparedness is. If only they searched the accounts with the same enthusiasm they brought to the dictionary.”
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