Nigeria Checking South African National As Suspected Ebola Case

Nigerian health authorities said on Thursday that they were holding
for Ebola testing, a South African national in transit to her country.

This is because she was showing potential symptoms of the disease
after working in Guinea and Sierra Leone.

The South African woman, whose identity was not revealed, flew in to
Lagos airport from Morocco.

She was being treated as a suspected case and was being taken to
Lagos' Ebola treatment centre for tests to see whether she actually
had the virus.

The traveller, who lives in Cape Town, filled out a health
questionnaire on her arrival at Lagos in which she acknowledged
suffering from diarrhoea and vomiting, both possible symptoms of the
Ebola haemorrhagic virus.

Around 2,300 people have died so far this year in the worst Ebola
outbreak on record which has mostly affected Liberia, Sierra Leone and
Guinea. It has also reached Nigeria and Senegal because of sick
travellers "importing" the disease.

Democratic Republic of Congo has a separate outbreak.

Nigeria, has instituted Ebola screening, including infra-red
temperature scans and symptoms checks, at its airports and ports after
a Liberian-American infected with the disease brought it to Lagos in
July after flying from Liberia.

His is one of seven deaths recorded so far out of 19 confirmed cases in Nigeria.