Ebola Reaches Nigeria as Kenya’s Screening Is Put to the Test

Ebola has now reached Africa’s most populous country. On 20 October, Nigeria confirmed its first case in Abuja, a woman who had arrived from Uganda, making it the fourth African country hit by an outbreak that health officials call the fastest-spreading on record. Kenya confirmed its first case two weeks earlier and now has nine. Both governments are tightening screening and isolation, while the WHO warns the outbreak is becoming “more complex”.