Ebola patient in Nigeria is Swiss and had not visited DR Congo, says Bern

Switzerland’s foreign ministry said the Ebola patient in Nigeria is a Swiss woman and the wife of an employee at the embassy in Abuja. She and her husband travelled to Uganda about two weeks before her symptoms began, but neither visited the Democratic Republic of Congo; her husband has no symptoms and is in isolation. The patient, hospitalised at a private clinic for about a week, has the Bundibugyo strain, and 44 contacts have been identified. Bern is considering repatriating her, while the embassy’s other 25 staff members do not need to isolate.