WHO warns of 'complex' outbreak as Ebola spreads
The World Health Organization warned on Thursday that Africa faced a "complex" Ebola outbreak after the virus crossed from east Africa to Nigeria, marking the first case in the west of the continent. Nigeria on Tuesday had announced an imported case of the Bundibugyo strain, currently causing a major Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was detected in the wife of a diplomat who had travelled from Uganda to the Nigerian capital Abuja. Health minister Muhammad Ali Pate on Thursday said the woman's contacts had been tracked down since her arrival in Nigeria earlier this month, and that an undisclosed number of "high risk" individuals "have been quarantined, fully, in a facility". Nigeria, the continent's most populous nation, is the fourth African country affected by the outbreak. Kenya, in the east, has reported nine cases since October 6. The outbreak began in DRC and has become the deadliest in the country's history, killing more than 4,000 people out of more than 9,000 confirmed cases since mid-May, according to health authorities. It is caused by the Bundibugyo strain of the virus, for which there is still neither a vaccine nor a specific treatment. "We are facing a more complex outbreak landscape," Mohamed Janabi, regional...
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