Africa faces ‘complex’ Ebola outbreak after virus spread to Nigeria – WHO

The World Health Organization’s Africa chief warned on Thursday that the continent now faced a “complex” Ebola outbreak after the virus crossed from east Africa to Nigeria, which has reported the first case in the west of the continent.
“We are facing a more complex outbreak landscape. Nigeria has confirmed an imported case of Ebola virus disease,” Mohamed Janabi, the regional director for WHO in Africa, told an online media briefing.
Nigeria on Tuesday announced an imported case of the Bundibugyo strain behind a major DR Congo outbreak, in a woman, a diplomat who had a history of travel to Uganda.
The continent’s most populous nation is the fourth African country affected by the ou...