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The Bundibugyo Ebola Virus (BEV) has arrived in Nigeria; but, hopefully, it will be contained.<\/p>\n
On June 9, 2026, This Day Lawyer’s Cover was on the BEV. We interviewed Dr Ismail Abdus-Salam, the Director, Epidemiology, Biosecurity and Global Health\/State Epidemiologist, Lagos State Ministry of Health.<\/strong> He told us that the DRC declared its 17th outbreak of the Ebola Virus since 1976, on the 15th of May, 2026. He stated thus: “Ebola is not one virus, but a family. The Zaire strain that reached Nigeria…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The Bundibugyo Ebola Virus (BEV) has arrived in Nigeria; but, hopefully, it will be contained. On June 9, 2026, This Day Lawyer’s Cover was on the BEV. We interviewed Dr Ismail Abdus-Salam, the Director, Epidemiology, Biosecurity and Global Health\/State Epidemiologist, Lagos State Ministry of Health. He told us that the DRC declared its 17th outbreak […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":248385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,8692,2714,1111,8250,257,4687,393,254,1112],"class_list":["post-248384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrives","tag-bundibugyo","tag-ebola","tag-highlights","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-virus"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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