Nairobi, October 21- Nigeria has confirmed an Ebola infection in a woman who travelled from Uganda to Abuja, raising concerns about the possible spread of the disease beyond East Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Health Minister Muhammad Ali Pate said laboratory tests confirmed the infection. The patient has been admitted to a hospital in Abuja, where she is receiving treatment in isolation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Health officials have launched contact-tracing efforts to identify people who may have been exposed to the virus. So far, 44 people who had close contact with the patient have been identified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nigeria is the first country in West Africa to report a case associated with the ongoing Ebola outbreak in East Africa. The country previously contained an Ebola outbreak in 2014 through coordinated public health measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ebola is a serious viral disease that can cause symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhoea and, in severe cases, organ failure and internal or external bleeding. It spreads through direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person, including blood and vomit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The current outbreak began in the Democratic Republic of Congo in May and has resulted in thousands of deaths and more than 9,500 reported cases, according to figures cited by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The outbreak involves the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, a relatively uncommon variant for which there is no approved vaccine or specific treatment, although clinical trials are ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Uganda also reported infections during the outbreak but declared itself free of the disease in August after its last patient was discharged. Kenya has reported at least nine infections linked to the wider outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following the latest developments, Nigeria has strengthened disease surveillance and issued public health guidance for travellers. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has advised people arriving from countries experiencing Ebola transmission to follow applicable health-screening requirements and seek medical attention promptly if symptoms develop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nairobi, October 21- Nigeria has confirmed an Ebola infection in a woman who travelled from Uganda to Abuja, raising concerns about the possible spread of the disease beyond East Africa. Health Minister Muhammad Ali Pate said laboratory tests confirmed the infection. The patient has been admitted to a hospital in Abuja, where she is receiving treatment in isolation. Health officials have launched contact-tracing efforts to identify people who may have been exposed to the virus. So far, 44 people who had close contact with the patient have been identified. Nigeria is the first country in West Africa to report a case associated with the ongoing Ebola outbreak in East Africa. The country previously contained an Ebola outbreak in 2014 through coordinated public health measures. Ebola is a serious viral disease that can cause symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhoea and, in severe cases, organ failure and internal or external bleeding. It spreads through direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person, including blood and vomit. The current outbreak began in the Democratic Republic of Congo in May and has resulted in thousands of deaths and more than 9,500 reported cases, according to figures cited by the European Centre …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4421,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419\/revisions\/4421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}