Ebola: A Virus That Refuses to Disappear

In July 2014, Dr Ameyo Stella Adadevoh insisted that Patrick Sawyer be isolated at a Lagos hospital, helping contain Nigeria’s Ebola outbreak, which recorded 20 cases and eight deaths. She contracted the virus and died on August 19, 2014; Nigeria was declared free of Ebola transmission on October 20 that year. A reported imported case of Bundibugyo virus disease in a woman who travelled from Uganda and was admitted to a private hospital in Abuja on October 20, 2026, has brought Ebola back into focus. Because early symptoms can resemble malaria or typhoid, clinicians need to assess travel and exposure history and act quickly with testing, isolation and contact tracing.