The government of Switzerland confirmed on Friday that a woman identified as the first patient in Nigeria diagnosed with Ebola Bundibugyo in the context of an ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a Ugandan-born Swiss national who had not recently visited the DRC.
\n\nThe news follows the Nigerian government’s confirmation on Tuesday that it had diagnosed a case of the rare strain of Ebola in a traveler who arrived in Abuja, the national capital, in early October. Reports indicate that the patient, who is 42 years old, tested positive for Ebola on October 20 after presenting for some time with an unknown illness. She was first incorrectly diagnosed with malaria before the discovery of the Ebola infection.
\n\nReports indicated the patient was first treated for other diseases without success, which led officials to test for Ebola. The woman, identified in reports only as the spouse of an employee at the Swiss embassy in Uganda, reportedly entered Nigeria from Uganda. The lack of travel to the DRC prompted a back-and-forth between the Nigerian and Ugandan governments, as the latter insisted that it had not identified any new Ebola cases in recent memory and hinted the patient may…
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