Nigeria, Oct. 22 -- A senior field epidemiologist, Peter Adewuyi, has called on the Nigerian government to put the country's trained epidemiologists at the forefront of efforts to contain the confirmed Ebola case, saying Nigeria has about 500 specialists capable of supporting the response.

Mr Adewuyi, who led contact tracing during Nigeria's 2014 Ebola outbreak, said the country should rely on its existing public health expertise rather than depend on foreign epidemiologists to manage the outbreak.

"We have about 500 epidemiologists in the country and the government should just allow them to do their work," he said during an interview on ARISE TV Morning Show on Thursday.

His comments came two days after Nigeria confirmed an imported E...