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Nigeria’s Ebola patient spent two weeks in Uganda

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The 42-year-old patient infected with Ebola in Nigeria had spent two and a half weeks in Kampala, Uganda, before returning to Abuja, according to Jean Kaseya, director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Nigeria’s health minister, Muhammad Pate, says her 44 contacts have shown no symptoms and her condition is improving, BBC reports.

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