Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention

Force in Play

Led contact tracing, laboratory testing and alert investigation for Nigeria's imported case

A 42-year-old Swiss woman flew from Uganda to Abuja on October 3, developed symptoms four days later, and was treated at a private clinic in Nigeria's capital. On October 20, laboratory tests confirmed she had Ebola — Nigeria's first case in more than a decade. Health workers traced 62 people who may have been exposed. On November 13, the last of them finished 21 days of monitoring without becoming ill.

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