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Nigeria’s first confirmed Ebola case in the current East African outbreak is the wife of a diplomat who travelled to Uganda’s capital for a holiday, the head of Africa’s health agency has told the BBC.
Dr Jean Kaseya of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said the 42-year-old woman, originally from Uganda but based in Abuja, fell ill three days after arriving home on October 3.
Nigeria’s health minister, Muhammad Ali Pate, told the BBC the patient spent two and a half weeks in Kampala and made a two-hour stopover in Ethiopia’s capital on her return.
“She’s stable, she’s improving,” Pate said.
Authorities have identified 44 people who had been in contact with the woman, who tested positive for Ebola on Tuesday, as they work to contain the virus.
“Not all of them have been in close proximity. We cast the net wide so that we contain it as broadly as possible,” Pate told the BBC.
None of the isolated contacts, including the person the patient travelled with, are known to have developed symptoms, he added.
Kaseya said the woman first developed symptoms on October 6 and sought medical help.
“She went to the first hospital, a private hospital, thinking that she had malaria, and then she went to the second private hospital. She was admitted on the 11th,” he told the BBC’s Newshour programme.
