She was arrested after she disembarked from the Air Morok flight. She had filled out a health questionnaire on her arrival at the airport in which she acknowledged suffering from diarrhoea and vomiting, both possible symptoms of the Ebola hemorrhagic virus.
Director of Port Health Services at the Lagos airport, Dr. Morenike Alex-Okoh, told Reuters that “This person has been in Guinea and Sierra Leone since April; she has symptoms,”
She was immediately quarantined and Okoh said the testing process may last a few days.
Dr. Aileen Marty, a professor of infectious diseases at the Florida International University College of Medicine who is working with Nigerian health authorities, under the auspices of the World Health Organisatio (WHO), to maintain port of entry Ebola checks across the country, escorted the suspect.
“Nigeria cannot afford another ‘importation’ (of Ebola),” she said.
She told Reuters the fact that the South African traveler displayed several Ebola-like symptoms and had been in the high-risk zone justified her being treated as a suspected case. But such symptoms are also present in other diseases, such as malaria and cholera, hence the need for a specific Ebola test.
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