World · 8 d ago
Nigeria evacuates its only Ebola patient to Switzerland
The 42-year-old woman left Abuja on a medical flight on Monday with her husband, who has no symptoms. Health minister Muhammad Ali Pate said she is much improved and stable.
"This does not mean she is not still infectious," Pate said of her improved condition.
— Muhammad Ali Pate, Nigeria's health minister
Contacts of the patient
53 primary contacts traced
Nigeria has identified 53 primary contacts of the patient, most of them health workers, and has stepped up screening at airports.
What we know
- Bundibugyo strain: no vaccine, no specific treatment
- Congo has recorded 4,600+ deaths since May
Not yet
- How she was infected
- Whether she travelled to Congo
Scientists are still working out how she caught the Bundibugyo strain, with conflicting accounts over whether she travelled to Congo.
