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Nigeria Ebola patient contacts complete 21-day monitoring without signs of infection

Good news out of Nigeria where authorities say no further cases of Ebola have been detected since a woman arriving from Uganda tested positive for the virus last month.

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00:00Good news out of Nigeria, where authorities say no further cases of Ebola have been detected
00:06since a woman arriving from Uganda tested positive for the virus last month.
00:12All 62 contacts linked to the patient have now completed a 21-day monitoring period without
00:19signs of infection, the country's Centre for Disease Control said on Friday.
00:24On October 20, Nigeria announced that a Swiss woman returning to Abuja after spending time
00:31in Uganda had tested positive for Ebola.
00:35Authorities said it was the same Bundibugyo strain of the virus driving the latest outbreak
00:41in the DRC.
00:42The patient received treatment in Switzerland and has since recovered.
00:47Passing the 21-day monitoring period doesn't in itself mean an end to the outbreak.
00:53Nigeria will need to go 42 days without another confirmed infection before it's declared
01:00Ebola-free, according to World Health Organization protocols.

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