BBC:
Health officials are investigating whether Ebola patients in Nigeria and Kenya may have crossed paths at Uganda’s main airport earlier this month.
Both travelled through Entebbe airport on 3 October, and investigators are examining whether they could have been exposed through shared equipment or other contact, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said on Thursday.
Dr Wessam Mankoula, the agency’s head of emergency preparedness and response, said this was “one of the possible scenarios”, but stressed that no link had been established.
Nigeria is battling its first Ebola case in more than a decade, while Kenya has confirmed nine infections, including one death.
The Nigerian patient, a 42-year-old Ugandan-born woman who lives in Abuja, is receiving treatment in isolation and is showing signs of improvement, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
She is married to a Swiss diplomat based in Nigeria, Switzerland’s foreign ministry confirmed to Reuters news agency. Her husband, who accompanied her on a trip to Uganda, is also in isolation but has not developed symptoms.
The woman returned to Nigeria on 3 October after spending about two and a half weeks in Uganda, travelling through Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, where she had a two-hour stopover.
She developed symptoms four days after arriving in Abuja and sought treatment at two private health facilities before testing positive for Ebola on 20 October.
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