Dr Faisal Shuaib of Nigeria's Health Ministry heads the Ebola command center. The response team includes several international agencies that have been in Nigeria for years fighting other diseases ...

John Vertefeuille, head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Ebola response team in Nigeria, said contact tracing also played a key role in stopping the spread of the virus.

The teams monitored these contacts for symptoms, and isolated suspected cases. The aggressive tactics worked. As the chart below shows, most Ebola patients in Nigeria didn’t infect anyone else.

Nigeria had long had a contagious disease response ... Our approach gave each partner a role in the Ebola team that met daily and made strategic and tactical decisions, removing potential ...

As news spread that Ebola had reached Nigeria, the country’s social media ... of the government response team. “There was a major public awareness campaign. Virtually everybody in Lagos ...

He arrived in Lagos, Nigeria, on August 7 with a team of CDC specialists sent to West African nations battling Ebola. There are nine of us from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention in ...

At its core was the system Nigeria had developed for its war against polio and lead poisoning. The deputy manager of the polio campaign was brought in to head the Ebola response team and ...

Nigeria’s airports, seaports and land borders have been placed on high alert after the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) declared an outbreak of Ebola this week. Africa’s most populous ...

Until recently the outbreak in Nigeria was almost completely ... I suspect someone may have symptoms of Ebola — please send a team,” said Shuaib. “It’s really a question of trust ...

“The response of the government has been robust,” said John Vertefeuille, who leads the Nigeria Ebola response team of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Ebola arrived ...

He arrived in Lagos, Nigeria, on August 7 with a team of CDC specialists sent to West African nations battling Ebola. There are nine of us from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention in ...