# Nigeria clears two suspected Ebola cases

> Health authorities in Nigeria confirm negative test results for two suspected Ebola cases after two rounds of testing.
- Title: Nigeria clears two suspected Ebola cases · RFI | Shortify
- Summary: Health authorities in Nigeria confirm negative test results for two suspected Ebola cases after two rounds of testing. Nigeria's health authorities cleared…
- Keywords: ebola, nigeria, disease control, health authorities, uganda, democratic republic of congo, central african republic, news, world, clears, two, suspected
- Source: RFI — https://rfi.fr/en/africa/20261102-nigerian-health-chiefs-confirm-negative-results-in-ebola-cases
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: ebola, nigeria, disease control, health authorities, uganda, democratic republic of congo, central african republic, news, world
## Two suspected cases test negative
Nigeria's health authorities confirmed on Monday that two suspected Ebola cases tested negative after two rounds of laboratory testing. The individuals had been isolated during contact identification and testing.
## Nigeria's first case in over a decade
Nigeria confirmed its first Ebola case in more than a decade on October twenty-third: a forty-two-year-old Swiss woman who travelled to Uganda and returned to Abuja.She and her husband returned to Switzerland on October twenty-sixth.
## Bundibugyo strain remains only confirmed case
The Swiss woman's case remains the only confirmed case of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola in Nigeria. Uganda registered twenty cases and two deaths before being declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization in August.
## DRC outbreak spreads to neighbouring countries
Kenya has recorded two deaths from Ebola out of nine cases, mostly in people who travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
## Central African Republic tightens border controls
The Central African Republic has tightened frontier controls with daily checks on travellers crossing its porous border with the DRC, which stretches for more than one thousand five hundred kilometres.
## River workers fear infection risk
Fishermen, canoe operators and fish sellers who work along the Oubangui river express concern about Ebola exposure.

> We are worried because we work right here, by the river, and if Ebola reaches here we shall be the first to fall victim to it.
## Testing begins on Bundibugyo vaccine protection
Testing of the Ervebo vaccine, which is effective against the Zaire strain of Ebola, has begun to determine whether it could protect against the Bundibugyo variant, which has no approved treatments or vaccines.
## Key takeaway

Nigeria's health authorities cleared two suspected Ebola cases after negative test results, though the country remains on alert following its first confirmed case in over a decade.