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First Ebola patients in Nigeria and Kenya might have crossed paths at Uganda airport
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Fusion42 · 23 October 2026 · Fusion42 review
The first confirmed Ebola patients in Kenya and Nigeria likely crossed paths at Uganda's Entebbe International Airport, with contact tracing underway to contain the outbreak that started in Congo and spread to multiple African countries.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Healthtech Infrastructure.
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You must act fast to build tools that help track and isolate virus contacts across borders. Healthtech that enables rapid response to outbreaks in Africa has a rare urgent opening.
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Healthtech Infrastructureebolaoutbreakcontact-tracingafricahealth-security