Abstract
The largest Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in history exploded across West Africa. The World Health Organization reported a total of 21,296 Ebola virus disease (EVD) cases, including 13,427 laboratory confirmed EVD cases reported from the three most affected countries Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone in 2014. Nigeria’s first case of EVD was officially announced in July, 2014. In an effort to tackle the Ebola outbreak in Nigeria, the Federal Government, drawing on the experience of the Emergency Operation Centre’s work with polio, declared Ebola a public health emergency and mobilized human, financial and material resources to contain the epidemic. Nigeria was officially declared Ebola free on 20th October 2014. However, the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has spread internationally from the DRC into neighbouring Uganda and it ranks as the second deadliest outbreak in history. This ongoing epidemic hereby calls for intensified disease monitoring at the Nigerian border posts, health centers and communities, and a prompt review of preparedness activities in the country to prevent another outbreak.
Highlights
Ebola virus disease (EVD) is one of the emerging viral diseases listed in the World Health Organization’s International Health Regulation [1]
Nigeria was officially declared Ebola free on 20th October 2014, the transmission of the virus in the African region is of growing concern this review focuses on the misconception and the view point of the microbiologist of Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria, how Nigeria contained the disease and highlights the preventive measures to curtail another outbreak
In the departure hall of the Liberian International Airport, Patrick Sawyer was visibly ill, lying on the floor of the departure lounge while awaiting the flight. He vomited during the flight, on arrival at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos and again in the private car that drove him to a private hospital [15].The Liberian was a 40 year old Diplomat of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), his status allowed air travel protocols to be broken and was taken and directly attended to in a private clinic in Obalende, Lagos [16]
Summary
Ebola virus disease (EVD) is one of the emerging viral diseases listed in the World Health Organization’s International Health Regulation [1]. Ebola virus causes severe disease in humans and in non- human primates in the form of viral hemorrhagic fever. The World Health Organization confirmed that four cases had tested positive for Ebola virus disease in the eastern region of Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [9]. From August 2018 to 11th June 2019, a total of 2,084 EVD cases, including 1,990 confirmed and 94 probable cases were reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [10]. In June 2019, the Ugandan Ministry of Health confirmed a case of Ebola Virus Disease in Kasese district, Uganda and two deaths has so far been reported [12]. Nigeria was officially declared Ebola free on 20th October 2014, the transmission of the virus in the African region is of growing concern this review focuses on the misconception and the view point of the microbiologist of Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria, how Nigeria contained the disease and highlights the preventive measures to curtail another outbreak
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