The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has mentioned two suspected Ebola cases recognized in Adamawa State have examined negative for the virus.
The improvement got here hours after the company announced that two suspected Ebola cases had been recognized in Nigeria’s North-east, with out disclosing the state the place they had been discovered.
In an announcement signed by its Director-General, Jide Idris, on Saturday night, the NCDC mentioned the samples collected from the two people examined negative for Ebola virus after two rounds of testing.
The company mentioned the suspected cases had been reported in Yola, Adamawa State, on 30 October after the two people offered with signs suggestive of Ebola.
“Fortunately, the samples turned out negative for EVD after two rounds of testing,” Mr Idris mentioned.
Mr Idris mentioned there’s at the moment no laboratory-confirmed Ebola case in Adamawa State.
He added that the index case beforehand confirmed in the Federal Capital Territory stays the one confirmed Ebola case reported in Nigeria thus far.
Ebola outbreak
The improvement comes 11 days after Nigeria confirmed its first case of Ebola illness brought on by the Bundibugyo virus.
Nigeria is one among 5 international locations which have detected Bundibugyo virus illness through the present outbreak, which started in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in May.
The outbreak has remained concentrated in the DRC however has unfold past the nation.
Nigeria’s first confirmed case of Ebola in 2026 was a lady who travelled from Uganda to Abuja and examined optimistic on 20 October. She was subsequently medically evacuated to Switzerland for continued therapy.
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The NCDC’s latest situation report mentioned 62 contacts linked to Nigeria’s confirmed case had been recognized and had been being monitored.
The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Pate, had mentioned genomic evaluation showed that the virus detected in the Nigerian affected person was intently associated to the pressure recognized in Kenya’s first imported case. He, nevertheless, mentioned the discovering didn’t set up that the Nigerian affected person was contaminated in Kenya.
WHO’s newest update reported 10,274 confirmed cases and 4,992 deaths in the DRC as of 28 October. Kenya has recorded 9 confirmed cases and two deaths, whereas Nigeria has one confirmed case on the time of the replace.
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