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Africa CDC sends Ebola experts to Nigeria as Uganda quarantines DRC returnees
October 26, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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3 reports · 2 in Arabic, 1 in English · over 1 hour
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"CDC": علماء متخصصون فى إيبولا يحققون فى منشأ الإصابة بالفيروس بنيجيريا
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علماء يحققون في مصدر تفشي إيبولا بنيجيريا وصلته بحالة كينيا
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Ebola outbreak: Uganda imposes 21-day quarantine on citizens returning from DR Congo
(opens the publisher’s site)Africa CDC is dispatching senior scientists to Nigeria to trace the source of the country's first Ebola infection while Uganda tightens border restrictions.
- Kaseya announced the team, led by Ebola co-discoverer Jean-Jacques Muyembe, will investigate how the Nigerian patient, wife of a Swiss diplomat, contracted the Bundibugyo strain.
- Kaseya said genetic sequencing showed the viruses in the Nigerian and Kenyan patients are closely related, though direct transmission has not been confirmed.
- Uganda's health ministry announced a 21-day quarantine for citizens returning from DR Congo and a ban on transit through Uganda for travellers from there.
- The outbreak has infected nearly 10,000 people and killed more than 4,600 in DR Congo, spreading to Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda.