Ebola: "urgent" meeting of African health ministers, more than 10,000 confirmed cases Africa CDC convened an "urgent" virtual meeting of several African health ministers on Wednesday, October 28 afternoon. Announced last week, immediately after the discovery of a case in Nigeria, it comes as the Ebola virus has been detected in three regions of the continent, with patients detected in the DRC, Uganda, Kenya and Nigeria. Five months after the start of the epidemic, it exceeded the mark of 10,000 confirmed cases. read more