The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, Professor Mohamed Janabi, says Nigeria currently has no active Ebola cases following the medical evacuation of the index patient and her husband to Switzerland. Janabi, in a statement posted on X on Monday, said the patient was clinically stable after Nigerian health workers successfully managed her…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has announced two additional suspected cases of Ebola in the country. The Director-General of the agency, Dr Jide Idris, disclosed this on Sunday during a press briefing, emphasising that the cases remain suspected and have not been confirmed. Idris also revealed that a suspected case in…
The Federal Government has said genomic analysis of Nigeria’s confirmed Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) case in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) indicates that the virus is genetically related to a strain identified in Kenya. The government, however, said further investigations were required to determine whether the two cases were epidemiologically linked. The Coordinating Minister of…
