Ten individuals have been isolated in the wake of coming into contact with a patient with Ebola-like manifestations in the southern Nigerian city of Calabar, authorities said on Thursday, a year after the nation was proclaimed free of the fatal ailment.
A patient went to the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital on Wednesday with indications predictable with the viral hemorrhagic fever, staff there said.
Neighborhood media reported the patient had following kicked the bucket, however there was no official affirmation.
"We have sent blood tests for testing and isolated recognized contacts," the healing center's boss restorative chief, Queeneth Kalu, said. Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency said 10 individuals were in isolate.
Any affirmed case would bring about significant worry over the district, where specialists had trusted they were at last rising up out of the most noticeably awful plague of the malady on record.
The three West African nations at the pandemic's heart - Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone - had recently recorded their first week with no new cases following the episode was announced in March 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.
The Ebola infection landed in Nigeria in July a year ago when voyaging Liberian businessperson Patrick Sawyer broken down in Lagos air terminal. Be that as it may, the nation was proclaimed Ebola free in October a year ago.
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