Ebola Outbreak in Africa Reaches Widest Expansion Ever

Scritto il 22/10/2026
da Apoorva Mandavilli

Health officials are urgently seeking answers about the origins of a case newly identified in Nigeria, the first in that West African nation.Nizamiye Hospital in Abuja, Nigeria, where the country’s first Ebola patient was admitted this week. An African health official said that if authorities could not come up with ways to stamp out the outbreak, “the whole continent can be affected.”