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Nigeria’s Ebola Patient Evacuated as Investigators Press for Answers

More than a week after the first case was reported in Africa’s most populous nation, pressing questions about the infection remain unanswered.

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A photograph released by the Geneva University Hospitals shows paramedics carrying from a helicopter a woman who had been diagnosed with Ebola following her flight from Nigeria, on Monday.
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Ebola Outbreak in Africa Reaches Widest Expansion Ever

Health officials are urgently seeking answers about the origins of a case newly identified in Nigeria, the first in that West African nation.

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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.”
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Nigeria Announces First Case of Ebola in Current Outbreak

Health officials praised the Nigerian authorities for their transparency in reporting the spread of the virus.

© Arlette Bashizi for The New York Times

Testing for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where thousands of people have died in this year’s outbreak.
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