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Ebola Spreads to Nigeria in First West Africa Case
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Nigeria has confirmed a case of Ebola in a woman who travelled to the capital, Abuja, from Uganda. She is being treated in isolation and health officials are tracing 44 of her close contacts. It is the first West African case linked to the current outbreak, which has killed more than 4,600 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo and has also spread to Kenya.
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