A woman is currently in isolation at a hospital in Abuja, receiving medical care after Nigeria confirmed a case of Ebola linked to East Africa.
Health authorities have not yet released further details about the patient's identity, travel history, or the specific strain involved, but the confirmation has put the country's public health system on alert.
Nigeria has faced Ebola before, and its 2014 response, which successfully contained an outbreak in Lagos, is still studied as a model of rapid disease management on the continent. How the system performs this time will be worth watching closely.
Originally published by BBC Africa.