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Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention

African Union's health agency

Health & Medicine · African health ministers to hold Ebola crisis talks as Nigeria confirms first case

African health ministers will hold crisis talks on Ebola as Nigeria becomes the fourth country to confirm a case, with the outbreak that began in Congo spreading across Central, Eastern and Western Africa. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has called for urgent action to contain the growing outbreak, which has now also reached Kenya and Uganda.