Overview
- Nigeria announced on Tuesday that a woman who arrived from Uganda and was treated in a private hospital in Abuja tested positive for Ebola and is now isolated.
- Health teams have identified and begun monitoring 44 close contacts linked to the patient and have urged all public and private health facilities to stay on maximum alert.
- Kenya has a separate, contained cluster of nine confirmed cases tied to an imported infection and reports no evidence so far of wider community spread.
- The outbreak began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in May and is driven by the Bundibugyo variant, which currently has no approved vaccine or targeted treatment and is prompting WHO‑backed vaccine trials.
- Response in the DRC faces big obstacles—rebel violence, mass displacement, distrust of authorities, and hard access—which experts say increase the risk of further regional exportation and have led some governments to raise travel guidance.