Nigeria, May 30 -- The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has placed Lagos, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Kano, Rivers and six other states on high-risk alert over the potential importation of the deadly Bundibugyo strain of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).

The warning follows a fresh risk assessment by the agency, which classified Nigeria's likelihood of recording an imported case as high amid the worsening Ebola outbreak in East and Central Africa.

In a public health advisory sent to health commissioners across the 36 states and the FCT, the NCDC directed authorities to urgently strengthen disease surveillance, isolation facilities and infection prevention measures to guard against a possible outbreak.

The mov...