Nigeria’s first Ebola case ‘highly similar’ to Kenyan one – Minister

Genomic tests have shown that the Ebola virus found in Nigeria’s first case resembles that of the first case recorded in Kenya earlier this month, Nigeria’s health minister said Friday.
Nigeria announced its first Ebola case on Tuesday, the wife of a staff member at Switzerland’s embassy in Abuja, who had returned from Uganda on October 3.
She had not visited the Democratic Republic of Congo — the epicentre of the current outbreak, the Swiss foreign ministry said on Friday, contrary to earlier reports by the Ugandan government.
Health authorities on the continent have been trying to trace the source of her infection — with Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention earlier su...