跟进:尼日利亚埃博拉患者确认为瑞士外交官妻子曾赴乌干达旅行、感染毒株已查明

阿布贾——瑞士外交部向路透社证实,尼日利亚十多年来首例埃博拉患者为瑞士驻阿布贾一名外交官 42 岁的乌干达裔妻子,她于 10 月 20 日确诊。据报道,其丈夫正在接受隔离、目前无症状;使馆 25 名雇员健康状况无需隔离。
流行病学调查显示,她约两周前在乌干达旅行期间感染:9 月 16 日至 10 月 3 日身在乌干达,返回尼日利亚 4 天后发病。瑞士方面称她未去过刚果(金),这与乌干达官员的说法存在矛盾,非洲疾控中心表示"尚无经核实信息"。
尼日利亚方面已追踪 44 名接触者。实验室确认其感染的是本迪布焦(Bundibugyo)毒株。
(GSM 据路透社、瑞士外交部声明,经尼日利亚《太阳报》转述)
来源:GSM·美国
Nigeria's Ebola Patient Identified as Swiss Diplomat's Wife Who Had Traveled to Uganda
ABUJA — Switzerland's foreign ministry confirmed to Reuters that Nigeria's first Ebola case in more than a decade is the 42-year-old Ugandan-born wife of a Swiss diplomat posted in Abuja. She was diagnosed on October 20.
Her husband is in isolation with no symptoms, and 25 embassy employees need no health quarantine, according to the reports. The epidemiological investigation indicates she was infected during travel in Uganda about two weeks earlier: she was in Uganda from September 16 to October 3 and fell ill four days after returning to Nigeria.
Switzerland said she had not visited the Democratic Republic of Congo, contradicting Ugandan officials' account; the Africa CDC said there was "no verified information yet." Nigerian authorities have traced 44 contacts. Laboratory tests identified the Bundibugyo strain.
(GSM, from Reuters and the Swiss foreign ministry via Nigeria's The Sun)
Source: GSM · America
来源:GSM·美国(原文链接)
图片来源:埃博拉病毒电子显微镜图像(资料图)。照片:Dr. Frederick Murphy(CDC),公有领域,经 Wikimedia Commons。 / File photo. Photo: Dr. Frederick Murphy(CDC), 公有领域, via Wikimedia Commons.

