{"id":48600,"date":"2026-10-21T07:56:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T05:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=48600"},"modified":"2026-10-21T07:56:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T05:56:55","slug":"nigeria-confirms-ebola-case-in-patient-who-arrived-from-uganda","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/nigeria-confirms-ebola-case-in-patient-who-arrived-from-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria confirms Ebola case in patient who arrived from Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Nigeria&#8217;s government said on Tuesday there was a case of Ebola in \u200bthe capital, Abuja, after laboratory tests confirmed the viral infection.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Health Minister \u200cMuhammad Ali Pate told the public broadcaster that the female patient had travelled from Uganda in East Africa.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;She is in isolation, and she is receiving quality medical care. Contact tracing has been conducted, and it&#8217;s \u200bunder way as we speak, with 44 contacts already identified,&#8221; Pate told public \u200bbroadcaster\u00a0<i>Nigerian Television Authority<\/i>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Uganda&#8217;s Health Ministry said in a public statement late on Tuesday \u2060that the patient had travelled to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for business and \u200btransited Uganda in early October without symptoms before developing symptoms after arriving in Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Travel through \u200bUganda does not establish that infection occurred here. The location of exposure remains under investigation,&#8221; the ministry said, adding that Uganda had &#8220;no confirmed active Ebola cases&#8221; at the time of the statement.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Pate \u200bsaid in a statement that the patient had been admitted to a private hospital \u200bin Abuja, where she had received care for several days before the diagnosis was confirmed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Nigeria successfully contained \u200cEbola \u2060in 2014, and we have the experience and public health systems to respond to this case,&#8221; the minister said in the statement.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>An Ebola outbreak was declared in DRC in mid-May and has since grown into the world&#8217;s second-largest outbreak ever, caused by the \u200brare Bundibugyo strain.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Uganda \u200breported 20 cases \u2060in May and June, mostly imported from Congo, but was declared free of the virus by the World Health Organisation in August.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kenya \u200bhas reported nine Ebola cases this month, all linked to a person \u200bwho had \u2060travelled from DRC.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Africa&#8217;s top public health agency has started mobilising support for Nigeria, said its Head, Jean Kaseya.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;This Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak has already become the most geographically extensive in history, \u2060affecting, countries \u200bspread across three regions of Africa,&#8221; Kaseya said in \u200ba post on X.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40639,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-48600","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Nigeria's government said on Tuesday there was a case of Ebola","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48602,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48600\/revisions\/48602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=48600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}