Nigeria: Ebola – Swiss Government Says Nigeria’s Patient Likely Contracted Virus in Uganda

However, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said they had not received verified information that the woman travelled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where the current Ebola outbreak began.

Nigeria’s first confirmed Ebola patient in more than a decade is believed to have contracted the virus while travelling in Uganda, although health authorities are yet to establish the source of her infection.

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