Nigeria's Ebola patient, the wife of a Swiss diplomat, was evacuated to Switzerland.
Her husband flew with her on the same flight. He has shown no symptoms. At departure, she was conscious, communicating and clinically much improved. Doctors still consider her infectious. Per
Assessment
Moving an Ebola patient across borders while she remains infectious raises real public health stakes, especially with her husband on the same flight, even symptom-free. Her reported improvement is cautiously positive but changes nothing about transmission risk. Watch whether Swiss health authorities disclose the extent of their monitoring of fellow passengers and crew.