尼日利亚卫生部于10月20日确认该国首例埃博拉确诊病例1。患者为一名女性，最近从乌干达乘国际航班抵达1，并在首都阿布贾的私立医院接受检测后确诊1。该患者于10月7日开始出现症状，10月11日入院1。当局已追踪到患者的44名密切接触者1。
这起病例与正在东非蔓延的埃博拉疫情相关2。当前疫情始于刚果民主共和国东部，已扩散至乌干达、肯尼亚等国1，已导致超过9000例确诊病例和4300多例死亡，致死率接近50%1。这是有记录以来传播最快的埃博拉疫情1。相比之下，2014年至2016年的西非埃博拉疫情在约30个月内造成11300例死亡1。卫生部长穆罕默德·阿里·帕特表示当局正努力遏制疫情1。尼日利亚已于6月成立了埃博拉应急工作组1。
Nigeria's health authorities have confirmed the country's first case of Ebola, identified in a female patient who recently arrived from Uganda by international flight. 12 The patient, who developed symptoms on October 7, was admitted to a private hospital in Abuja on October 11 and subsequently tested positive for the virus. 1
The confirmed case marks Nigeria's entry into an ongoing outbreak that originated in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and has since spread to Uganda, Kenya, and other nations in the region. 1 The current epidemic has resulted in over 9,000 confirmed cases and more than 4,300 deaths, representing a case fatality rate near 50 percent. 1 This outbreak is the fastest-spreading Ebola epidemic on record—notably more severe than the 2014–2016 West African outbreak, which caused approximately 11,300 deaths over roughly 30 months. 1
Health authorities have already identified and are monitoring 44 close contacts of the confirmed patient. 1 Nigeria's Health Minister Muhammad Ali Pate stated that officials are working to contain the outbreak, which comes after the country established an Ebola emergency response task force in June. 1
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