--- description: A man showing Ebola-like symptoms has died in Nigeria, a year after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the country Ebola-free title: A Year After Being Virus-Free Ebola Could Be Back in Nigeria image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf900b5885954eba8/698761932dce0184399db049/ap54586097621.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Nigeria](/tag/nigeria/) ## Nigeria Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Ebola Could Be Back in Nigeria a Year After it Was Declared Free of the Virus by [Mark Rivett-Carnac](/author/mark-rivett-carnac/) ## Mark Rivett-Carnac Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 9, 2015 4:09 AM CUT  A teacher uses a thermometer to test students' temperature to check for symptoms of Ebola at Aiyetoro African Church Nursery and Primary school in Lagos, Nigeria, Oct. 8, 2014. A teacher uses a thermometer to test students' temperature to check for symptoms of Ebola at Aiyetoro African Church Nursery and Primary school in Lagos, Nigeria, Oct. 8, 2014.Sunday Alamba—AP by [Mark Rivett-Carnac](/author/mark-rivett-carnac/) ## Mark Rivett-Carnac Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 9, 2015 4:09 AM CUT Ten people were [quarantined](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34482989 "undefined") in Nigeria after an Ebola scare on Wednesday, a year after the World Health Organization declared the country [Ebola-free](http://time.com/3522984/ebola-nigeria-who/ "undefined"). A man showing Ebola-like symptoms died shortly after he was admitted to the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital in the country’s southeastern corner, near the border with Cameroon, according to the BBC. “We have sent blood samples for testing and quarantined identified contacts,” the BBC reported the hospital’s chief medical director, Queeneth Kalu, as saying. Quarantined individuals include the nurses who cared for the patient. The scare came the same day Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia — the West African countries that suffered the most from Ebola — [celebrated](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34471234 "undefined") their first week without new cases after the virus started spreading across the region in March 2014. The outbreak has [killed](http://apps.who.int/ebola/current-situation/ebola-situation-report-7-october-2015 "undefined") more than 11,000 people, with the WHO warning that it still constitutes a “public health emergency of international concern” in a [statement](http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2015/ihr-ebola-7th-meeting/en/ "undefined") from Monday. This is the largest Ebola epidemic since the virus first appeared in 1976, with more deaths in this occurrence than in all others combined. \[[_BBC_](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34482989 "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4067598/nigeria-ebola-health-virus-west-africa-quarantine/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4067598/nigeria-ebola-health-virus-west-africa-quarantine/"},"headline":"Ebola Could Be Back in Nigeria a Year After it Was Declared Free of the Virus","datePublished":"2015-10-09T04:09:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:39:37.725Z","description":"A man has died of Ebola-like symptoms and his blood samples sent for testing","url":"https://time.com/4067598/nigeria-ebola-health-virus-west-africa-quarantine/","keywords":["Nigeria","health","Virus","ebola","West Africa","Quarantine"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf900b5885954eba8/698761932dce0184399db049/ap54586097621.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mark Rivett-Carnac","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/mark-rivett-carnac/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf900b5885954eba8/698761932dce0184399db049/ap54586097621.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Nigeria Ebola","caption":"Nigeria Ebola","creditText":"Sunday Alamba—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/nigeria/","name":"Nigeria"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4067598/nigeria-ebola-health-virus-west-africa-quarantine/","name":"Ebola Could Be Back in Nigeria a Year After it Was Declared Free of the Virus"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Ebola Fighters in West Africa - TIME's Person of the Year 2014","description":"Hundreds of doctors, nurses and health workers work every day to treat and contain the outbreak in the hot zone","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/laroqNbt/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-12-10T11:46:00.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/laroqNbt.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4067598/nigeria-ebola-health-virus-west-africa-quarantine/","duration":"PT10M47S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4067598/nigeria-ebola-health-virus-west-africa-quarantine/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```