Ten quarantined in Nigeria over Ebola scare

Abuja - Ten people have been quarantined after coming into
contact with a patient with Ebola-like symptoms in the
southern Nigerian city of Calabar, officials said on Thursday,
a year after the country was declared free of the deadly
disease.
A patient came to the University of Calabar Teaching
Hospital on Wednesday with symptoms consistent with the
viral hemorrhagic fever, staff there said.
Local media reported the patient had since died, though
there was no official confirmation.
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"We have sent blood samples for testing and quarantined
identified contacts," the hospital's chief medical director,
Queeneth Kalu, said. Nigeria's National Emergency
Management Agency said 10 people were in quarantine.
Any confirmed case would cause major concern across the
region, where experts had hoped they were finally emerging
from the worst epidemic of the disease on record.
The three West African countries at the heart of the
epidemic - Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone - had just
recorded their first week with no new cases since the
outbreak was declared in March 2014, the World Health
Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.
The Ebola virus arrived in Nigeria in July last year when
travelling Liberian businessman Patrick Sawyer collapsed in
Lagos airport. But the country was declared Ebola free in
October last year.