Nigeria's First Ebola Patient in More Than a Decade May Have Crossed Paths With Kenya's First
Nigeria announced its first Ebola case in more than a decade on Tuesday. Health officials said the patient may have crossed paths with the first Kenyan Ebola patient at a Ugandan airport.
The patient is the Ugandan-born wife of a diplomat based in Abuja; Nigerian health authorities said she had vacationed in Uganda in September and returned to Nigeria earlier this month. She is being treated, and 44 people she had close contact with have been quarantined.
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The airport detail is a lead, not a link: “may have crossed paths” is doing all the work.
Even a genuine encounter would not automatically mean transmission. Ebola spreads through direct contact with an infected person's bodily fluids or contaminated items, and people are generally not considered infectious until they show symptoms.