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Nigeria evacuates only confirmed Ebola case to Switzerland

The only confirmed case in Nigeria of Africa's latest deadly Ebola outbreak was evacuated Monday by air from Abuja, the capital, to Switzerland, where she has citizenship. Nigeria has stepped up contact-tracing and screenings at airports.

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00:02Nigeria's authorities evacuated the country's currently only confirmed Ebola case to Switzerland on Monday.
00:10The woman is the 42-year-old wife of a Swiss embassy worker and has Swiss nationality.
00:16She had been travelling in Uganda before returning to Nigeria and being diagnosed with Ebola.
00:22While the patient is in a stable condition,
00:24Nigerian authorities have stepped up contact tracing to identify potential further cases.
00:31Fifty-three primary contacts have been identified so far,
00:35with most being health workers and members of the woman's family and household staff.
00:41A test on a suspected case in River State came back negative.
00:48Screenings for airport arrivals have also been expanded,
00:51although the measure does not apply to domestic flights.
00:56The World Health Organization has warned that Africa is facing a complex Ebola outbreak,
01:02with the virus not only present in the DLC, where the outbreak originates,
01:06but also in West and East Africa.

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