Nigerian health authorities ruled out the presence of the Ebola virus on Sunday, November 1, 2026, in two patients isolated in Yola, Adamawa State, following two rounds of negative tests, announced the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.
Both individuals exhibited symptoms consistent with the disease. The report was received by the Adamawa health emergency operations center on the morning of October 30, before their isolation and the collection of samples sent to the national reference laboratory.
The Director General of the NCDC, Jide Idris, stated that no cases of Ebola have been confirmed in Adamawa State. However, the agency continues its investigation with the local government and maintains the surveillance measures put in place around the patients.
Nigeria thus retains a single confirmed case since the beginning of the alert. It concerns a Swiss woman who returned from Uganda and was diagnosed in Abuja on October 20, before her medical evacuation to Switzerland with her husband six days later.
The NCDC was still monitoring 62 contacts linked to this imported case. Six primary contacts were due to complete their 21-day observation period on Sunday without having shown any symptoms, according to the national Ebola response official cited by the Nigerian daily The Guardian.
The negative results from Yola mean that the two patients are not added to the national tally. Authorities have urged the population to promptly report any fever, severe weakness, vomiting, diarrhea, or unexplained bleeding following exposure or travel to a risk area.
The epidemic remains primarily concentrated in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The latest update from the World Health Organization, as of October 28, reported 10,274 confirmed cases and 4,992 deaths in the DRC, while Kenya had nine cases and two deaths.
The Bundibugyo strain currently in circulation has no approved vaccine or specific treatment. Patients receive supportive care, while isolation, contact tracing, and infection prevention remain the primary means of containing the spread.
