Nigeria reports first case of Ebola imported from abroad! CDC: No adjustments to travel warnings yet

Lin Mingcheng, deputy director of the CDC, stated that after assessing the epidemic situation in Kenya and Nigeria, the overall threat risk of this wave of epidemics to my country is still low, and the CDC will not raise the international travel epidemic advisory level for these two countries for the time being. (File photo)

[Reporter Lin Zhiyi/Report from Taipei] The Ebola epidemic in Africa continues to spread. Kenya and Nigeria have reported their first cases of "Bundi Bugyo Ebola virus (BVD)" infection, and Kenya has successively seen contacts of imported cases fall ill. Lin Mingcheng, deputy director of the CDC, said that after assessing the overall threat of the epidemic in the two countries to my country is still low, the CDC has not issued a travel warning yet.

A Nigerian woman with a recent history of traveling to Uganda became ill on October 7 after arriving in Nigeria on October 3 this year. She went to a private medical facility in Abuja, the capital, for treatment on October 11. She was confirmed to be infected with BVD by laboratory testing on October 20. She is currently being treated in isolation. She is the country's first overseas immigrant case.

In addition, Kenya announced its first imported case on October 6. Among the close relatives, medical care staff and cleaning staff who had been in contact with the case, eight people successively fell ill during the isolation and quarantine period. There is currently no evidence that the epidemic has spread to the community beyond the known contacts.

Lin Mingcheng said that after assessing the epidemic situation in Kenya and Nigeria, the overall threat risk of this wave of epidemic to our country is still low. The CDC has not raised the international travel epidemic advisory level for these two countries for the time being, and has maintained the unannounced international travel epidemic advisory level. The travel alert for the Democratic Republic of the Congo remains at "Level 3 Warning (Warning)", calling on Chinese people to avoid all non-essential travel to the local area.

However, the CDC emphasized that considering the frequent international travel and convenient transportation, the possibility of imported cases cannot be completely ruled out. It will continue to closely monitor the epidemic development and related risk assessments of the World Health Organization (WHO) and various countries, and will adjust epidemic prevention measures and international travel epidemic recommendations on a rolling basis based on changes in the international epidemic to maintain the health and safety of the Chinese people.