Nizamiye Hospital in Abuja, Nigeria, where the country’s first Ebola patient was admitted this week. An African health official said that if authorities could not come up with ways to stamp out the outbreak, “the whole continent can be affected.”
A nurse gestures inside Nairobi Hospital, where an Ebola patient was isolated immediately upon arrival and treated at the hospital’s East Wing Isolation Facility. The patient later died.
In an interview, Dr. Peter Piot recalled when he first saw the spindly virus under a microscope and reflected on a five-decade career spent fighting two deadly pathogens.
In an interview, Dr. Peter Piot recalled when he first saw the spindly virus under a microscope and reflected on a five-decade career spent fighting two deadly pathogens.
The authorities said that the virus had been diagnosed in a man arriving from the Democratic Republic of Congo and that they were taking measures to prevent any spread.
The Kenyan cabinet secretary for health, Aden Duale, at a news conference in Nairobi on Tuesday. He said the man with Ebola had lived in Congo for seven years, and fell sick a month ago.
What happened in Mangala, where residents were left with little outside support, helps explain how this outbreak became the worst seen in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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