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Nigeria ends 21-day Ebola contact monitoring with no secondary transmission

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Nigeria's Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Friday that it has concluded the 21-day monitoring period for 62 contacts linked to a Swiss woman's imported Ebola case. While 13 of these contacts reported fever or other symptoms, all tested negative for the virus and no secondary transmissions were recorded. The report notes that while contact monitoring is complete, an official end-of-outbreak declaration cannot be made until a full 42-day countdown from the last patient's recovery or departure is finished.
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The Straits TimesThis outlet13 Nov

Nigeria's Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Friday that it has concluded the 21-day monitoring period for 62 contacts linked to a Swiss woman's imported Ebola case. While 13 of these contacts reported fever or other symptoms, all tested negative for the virus and no secondary transmissions were recorded. The report notes that while contact monitoring is complete, an official…

Nigeria ends 21-day Ebola contact monitoring with no secondary transmission (this article)
Al Jazeera13 Nov

Nigerian health authorities have completed a 21-day monitoring period for 62 contacts of a Swiss woman who contracted the Ebola virus after traveling to Uganda. While thirteen contacts reported fever or non-specific symptoms, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that none of the individuals tested positive for the virus. The report emphasizes that while this specific monitoring period is…

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“The articles describe different stages of the same broader situation, but not the same specific event: one discusses the release of the Swiss woman from the hospital in Switzerland, while the other discusses the completion of contact monitoring in Nigeria without secondary transmission.”

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ABUJA NCDC Nigeria Swiss the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention

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Nigeria GPE · 4× NCDC ORG · 3× ABUJA GPE · 1× Nigerian NORP · 1× Swiss NORP · 1× Switzerland GPE · 1× Uganda GPE · 1× WHO ORG · 1× the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention ORG · 1×

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Nigeria has completed the 21-day monitoring period for all 62 contacts linked to the country's reported Ebola case with none of them falling ill, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) said on Friday.
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Nigeria ends 21-day Ebola contact monitoring with no secondary transmission ABUJA, Nov 13 - asserted
Nigeria → end → transmission
Nigeria has completed the 21-day monitoring period for all 62 contacts linked to the country's reported Ebola case with none of them falling ill, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) said on Friday. asserted
Centre → complete → Friday
Nigeria confirmed its first Ebola case in more than a decade on October 20 in a Swiss woman who had travelled to Uganda and then returned to Nigeria. asserted
who → confirm → Nigeria
She and her husband were evacuated to Switzerland where she recovered fully and has been discharged from hospital. asserted
she → evacuate → hospital
The NCDC said none of the 62 contacts identified after the imported case developed the disease, and the last contact was discharged today • asserted
contact → say → disease
Thirteen contacts reported fever or other non-specific symptoms during monitoring, but all 13 tested negative for the virus • asserted
13 → report → virus
The NCDC said seven Ebola alerts across five Nigerian states over the past three weeks were investigated, and all seven tested negative • asserted
seven → say → weeks
The agency said that completing contact monitoring does not by itself mean the outbreak is over • asserted
outbreak → say → itself
According to WHO protocols, a country must complete a full 42-day countdown from the recovery or departure of the last confirmed patient before an official end-of-outbreak declaration can be made REUTERS uncertain
declaration → accord → outbreak
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