Ebola: 28 contacts under surveillance in Nigeria — NCDC

…No new confirmed case in 21 days as agency flags five disease threats
By Chioma Obinna
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has disclosed that 28 contacts linked to the country’s first imported case of Bundibugyo Ebola Virus Disease remain under surveillance, even as it warned of five other infectious disease threats.

The agency said no additional Ebola case had been confirmed 21 days after the first infection was detected, but investigations and surveillance of suspected cases were ongoing.

The NCDC Director-General, Dr Jide Idris, disclosed this in a national health security update on Monday, identifying dengue fever, chikungunya, diphtheria, cerebro...