Nigeria Ebola patient did not travel to Congo, Swiss government says

DAKAR, Oct 23 - The Ebola patient in Nigeria, the Ugandan-born wife of a Swiss diplomat based in Abuja, did not travel to Democratic Republic of Congo, the Swiss government said in a statement to Reuters on Friday, contradicting accounts from Uganda.The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs had on Thursday told Reuters that the woman, who it identified as a Swiss national, was believed to have contracted Ebola while travelling with her husband in Uganda, where the government says there are no cases.Ugandan authorities have said the woman who fell ill in Nigeria had travelled to eastern Congo, where the ongoing outbreak was declared in mid-May and has since become the fastest-spreading on record.But the World Health Organization and Africa's top health agency said on Thursday they had not received confirmed information that the woman had travelled to Congo.\"She and her husband did not travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo,\" the Swiss foreign affairs department said on Friday.