Nigeria's first Ebola case matches DR Congo strain, health officials say

Nigeria's first Ebola case matches DR Congo strain, health officials say Share Nigeria's first Ebola case matches DR Congo strain, health officials say on social media Nigerian health officials say test results have confirmed the country's first case of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, which is behind a major outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), marking the disease's first spread to West Africa in the current outbreak. The case involves a woman who travelled from Uganda to the capital, Abuja, on October 3, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) said. Officials confirmed the positive result on Tuesday. "We did three levels of tests, but all molecular. The strain was Bundibugyo," Olajumoke Babatunde, director of the public health laboratory service at the NCDC, said on Wednesday.