Ebola: Nigeria evacuates its first patient to Switzerland with her husband

Six days after Nigeria announced its first Ebola case in more than ten years, the patient left Abuja for Switzerland aboard a medical evacuation flight. Health Minister Muhammad Ali Pate said she was stable, conscious and recovering; her husband, a contact who had shown no symptoms, accompanied her. The patient is reportedly the wife of a Swiss diplomat based in Abuja and had been treated at a private hospital in the capital after returning to Nigeria earlier in the month. Authorities are monitoring her contacts for 21 days, and none had developed symptoms by the time of the evacuation.