Nigeria and Uganda have offered conflicting accounts of the travel history of the woman confirmed as Nigeria’s first Ebola patient in the current outbreak, as health authorities investigate where she contracted the virus.
Nigeria’s Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Ali Pate, said the patient spent two and a half weeks holidaying in Kampala, Uganda, before returning to Abuja through Ethiopia, where she made a two-hour stopover in Addis Ababa.
However, Uganda’s Ministry of Health said the woman travelled to eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) for business and only passed through Uganda on her journey home. The Ugandan authorities stressed that her transit through the country did not establish that she contracted Ebola there.