Nigeria records its first Ebola case, in capital Abuja

Nigeria 's Health Ministry on Tuesday confirmed that the country had recorded its first known case of Ebola in the current outbreak. A woman who recently arrived from Uganda tested positive for the virus. The outbreak is thought to have started in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo , not far from the Ugandan border, with Uganda the second country to record infections. It also recently spread to Kenya in limited numbers , with nine known cases recorded this month. The overwhelming majority of known cases, however, remain confined to the DRC , particularly its eastern provinces.