Nigeria’s first confirmed Ebola patient safely evacuated to Switzerland [SOUND]

# Nigeria has evacuated its only confirmed Ebola patient to Switzerland, where she holds citizenship. The 42-year-old woman began showing symptoms after arriving in the capital, Abuja, from Uganda earlier this month. She is being treated at Geneva University Hospital, while her husband is in isolation at Zurich University Hospital. Nigerian authorities are monitoring 52 people who had been in contact with her. The World Health Organisation’s regional director for Africa, Mohamed Janabi, says the patient was able to be evacuated as she was clinically stable: