Nigeria, Oct. 23 -- Nigeria's first confirmed Ebola patient in more than a decade is believed to have contracted the virus while travelling in Uganda, although health authorities are yet to establish the source of her infection.

According to a report by Reuters, the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs told the newspaper in an emailed statement on Thursday that the patient, a Ugandan-born woman married to a Swiss diplomat based in Abuja, has been receiving treatment at a private clinic in the Nigerian capital for about a week.

According to Reuters, the statement said the woman was believed to have contracted the virus during a visit to Uganda about two weeks earlier. Her husband, who travelled with her, is in isolation but has no...