Nigeria and Kenya Ebola patients may have crossed paths at Uganda airport, officials say

The Kenyan man had travelled from the Democratic Republic of Congo through Uganda before arriving in Nairobi on 3 October. He later died, becoming Kenya's first recorded Ebola death in the current outbreak.Although both patients passed through Entebbe airport on the same day, health officials have not established whether they met, used the same facilities or had any other contact."One of the issues we are currently investigating has been some sort of interaction between the two cases at the airport," Mankoula told journalists on Thursday. Investigators are also examining whether the two infections could have a common source.The WHO said it was too early to determine where the Nigerian woman became infected."The source of exposure is still not known. The travel history of the patient is still being pieced together," said Dr Patrick Otim, a WHO emergency response official.He said investigators had struggled to obtain a complete account of her movements because opportunities to interview her were limited while she remained in hospital.Nigeria's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) said it was carrying out genomic sequencing, which could help investigators understand whethe...