A Nigerian woman, suspected to have been infected by the Ebola virus, has reportedly died in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Media reports in the country, said the 35-year-old Nigerian, who was travelling from Nigeria to India for treatment of advanced metastatic cancer, arrived in Abu Dhabi on a transit flight.
Her health deteriorated while in transit at Abu Dhabi’s main airport and, as medics were trying to resuscitate her, they found signs that suggested a possible Ebola virus infection.
The woman’s husband and the five medics who treated her are being isolated pending test results.
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed over 1,100 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Four people have died after contracting the disease in Nigeria.
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