Nigeria confirmed an Ebola case in a female patient who traveled from Uganda to Abuja, marking the first reported case linked to the ongoing outbreak in Central and East Africa to reach West Africa, the BBC reported on Oct. 21. The patient developed symptoms on Oct. 7, four days after arriving in Nigeria, following business travel to eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and transit through Uganda; the source of the infection remains under investigation, while Nigerian authorities have identified 44 close contacts and initiated contact tracing.