I realize that the Nigerian president is saying there are no Ebola cases in Nigeria, but he's also in charge of all the internet scams coming out of Nigeria lol, and I seriously doubt he can be trusted.  It seems that the Nigerian doctors are saying to wait for "two incubation periods" to pass (42 days) before they should declare being free of Ebola.  My guess is that the doctors have suspected cases and it will come out very soon.   I've been doing this too many years and know the way governments handle/report outbreaks

Good news on Ebola front: Nigeria takes first step towards all-clear

Posted on September 25, 2014 in Health

Nigeria’s president appears to have jumped the gun a little on medical advice back home, by telling a UN gathering in New York that Nigeria is free of Ebola, but things are looking good. The health ministry says no one is ‘under surveillance for the Ebola virus in any part of Nigeria’. The country’s doctors are more circumspect, and say  the outbreak can only be declared officially  late October if there are no more cases after 42 days, or two incubation periods from the last confirmed case. MS

LAGOS – Nigeria has cleared all patients being monitored for the Ebola virus, the federal health ministry has said, but doctors said they would have to wait to declare the outbreak over.

President Goodluck Jonathan appeared to jump the gun on that medical advice at home on Wednesday, telling an applauding UN General Assembly that Nigeria was free of the deadly Ebola virus.

“We can confidently say that today Nigeria is Ebola free,” Jonathan told the largest diplomatic gathering in the world to a ripple of applause at UN headquarters in New York.

“Nigeria is Ebola free,” he said a second time to further applause.

Elsewhere in west Africa, the situation remains dire, with nearly 3,000 dead, most of them in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. However, in a Reuters  report, the WHO said the virus may also  been checked in Guinea. But a dire lack of beds and community resistance in some areas are helping the disease to continue spreading, while efforts to straighten out muddled data are gradually revealing an epidemic even more deadly than it had appeared.

Nigeria has contributed $3.5 million towards helping Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea countering Ebola, by providing training and capacity building, Jonathan said.

Medical surveillance

“There is nobody under surveillance for the Ebola virus in any part of Nigeria,” health ministry spokesman Dan Nwomeh said.

“All those under surveillance have completed their mandatory 21-day period stipulated by the WHO (World Health Organisation).”

Eight people have died out of 20 confirmed cases in Nigeria since July, according to the WHO, although the Nigerian government gave a lower figure of seven deaths in 19 cases. In all 529 people were placed under medical surveillance for signs of the disease in the commercial capital Lagos and the oil-producing Rivers State.

Four of those who died were healthcare workers who treated a Liberian government official, Patrick Sawyer, who brought the virus into the country from Monrovia.

The head of the Emergency Operation Centre (EOC) for Ebola in Lagos, Faisal Shuaib, also confirmed that there were no current confirmed cases or anyone under surveillance in Nigeria.

Incubation period

“As of today, there is no case of Ebola in Nigeria. All listed contacts who were under surveillance have been followed up for 21 days,” he said in an e-mail exchange.

But he added: “The outbreak in Nigeria can be declared officially over only if there are no more cases after 42 days, or two incubation periods from the last confirmed case.”.

Nigeria has not reported any new cases since September 8, the WHO said. If there are no further cases, Nigeria could be declared Ebola free on October 20.

The EOC comprises staff from the WHO, the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Medecins Sans Frontiers and the UN children’s agency working under the Nigerian government.

The development came after the WHO said on Monday that Ebola was “pretty much contained” in Nigeria and Senegal, which recorded one confirmed case of the disease.

The WHO has warned that the number of cases could explode while the CDC said 1.4

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