Nigeria Records First Ebola Case in Abuja, Becoming Fifth Country Reached by the Virus

Nigeria has announced its first confirmed Ebola virus case in the capital, Abuja, in a woman who traveled from Uganda. According to the World Health Organization, this brings to five the number of countries that have detected the virus since the outbreak began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in May.

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• The patient is a woman who traveled from Uganda to Abuja, and the outbreak is centered in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

  «a woman who traveled from Uganda to the capital, Abuja, in the latest spread of an outbreak centered in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo»

  teleSUR English
• Health Minister Mohammed Ali Pate announced the confirmed case in Abuja after testing at a laboratory.

  «تسجيل إصابة مؤكدة بفيروس «إيبولا» في العاصمة أبوجا بعد عملية فحص بأحد المختبرات»

  الشرق الأوسط
• The patient has Ebola virus Bundibugyo strain in the Federal Capital Territory.

  «أكدت نيجيريا تسجيل حالة واحدة مصابة بفيروس إيبولا بونديبوجيو في إقليم العاصمة الفيدرالية»

  صدى البلد
• The World Health Organization described the case as the first imported infection in Nigeria, and the outbreak in the Congo began in May.

  «أعلنت منظمة الصحة العالمية تسجيل أول إصابة وافدة بفيروس إيبولا في نيجيريا»

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