ABOVE: Abidjan, Ivory Coast
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Update (September 1): The World Health Organization announced yesterday in a statement that a woman suspected of having Ebola virus in Ivory Coast had no evidence of the virus when samples were retested at the Pasteur Institute in Lyon, France. According to the statement, none of the woman’s contacts have tested positive or started displaying symptoms of the virus, and the WHO is now downgrading its containment efforts in Ivory Coast.
Ivory Coast’s Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization announced Saturday (August 14) that the first case of Ebola virus had been detected in the country since 1994. According to the Associated Press, Health Minister Pierre N’Gou Demba says the virus was detected in an 18-year-old woman who had traveled by bus from Guinea to Abidjan, a major metropolitan center and the largest city in Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire). She tested positive ...
