Swiss Woman Who Tested Positive for Ebola in Nigeria Recovers and Returns Home

(Swiss woman travelling back. Photo by Reuters)
A Swiss woman who caught Ebola in Nigeria is now completely cured.

After being flown back to Switzerland on a special medical flight for treatment, doctors confirmed she is healthy and let her go home.

She left Geneva University Hospitals on Wednesday, November 11, after doctors confirmed she was fully well.

The hospital said in a statement sent to reporters on Thursday that the cantonal physician approved her discharge.

The woman was born in Uganda.

She and her husband, a Swiss diplomat, were moved from Nigeria to Swiss hospitals in late October.

She had tested positive for the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola on October 20.

She had spent two weeks on holiday in Uganda before flying back to Abuja, where she fell ill.

Her case raised fears of spread inside Nigeria.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said 62 people were identified as contacts.

As of November 11, 10 of them were still being monitored.

No deaths have been recorded in Nigeria, and the woman's case is the only confirmed one in the country.

Seven suspected cases tested negative.

Experts are still trying to work out how she got the virus.

Africa CDC Director General Jean Kaseya said investigators would look into where the infection started.

The Bundibugyo outbreak, first reported in May, has spread across parts of Africa.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has more than 11,000 confirmed cases, making it the second largest Ebola outbreak on record.

The European agency for disease control reported 5387 deaths in the DRC as of November 10.

This strain has no approved vaccine or specific treatment.

The Federal Government has said Nigeria could be declared free of the outbreak by December 7 if no new confirmed or probable cases appear, subject to the World Health Organisation's 42 day countdown being verified.