Nigeria's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said Saturday it is investigating two suspected Ebola cases in the country's northeast, with both people isolated while laboratory tests are run^1,2.

The agency posted the update on X, saying contact identification and listing were underway^1,2. Confirmation depends on lab results, it said, and a suspected classification does not mean the people have Ebola^1,2.

Premium Times reported the NCDC had not named the states involved¹. Reuters confined itself to the agency's short Saturday notice².

The notice comes 11 days after Nigeria confirmed its first Ebola case of the current Bundibugyo outbreak, Premium Times said¹. That patient was a woman who traveled from Uganda to Abuja, tested positive on Oct. 20, and was later medically evacuated to Switzerland¹.

NCDC Director-General Jide Idris said on LinkedIn that tracing also accounts for recent movement inside Nigeria¹. He asked the public to avoid unverified claims and to keep up hand hygiene, including sanitizer use, and to seek care at designated facilities if unusual symptoms appear¹.

The NCDC also advised good hand hygiene, enhanced sanitation, and following public-health guidance¹.

Premium Times placed the Nigerian case in a wider Bundibugyo outbreak that began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in May, with detections also reported in Kenya, Uganda, and an imported case in France¹. Citing WHO figures as of Oct. 28, it reported 10,274 confirmed cases and 4,992 confirmed deaths in the DRC, plus smaller counts in the other countries, for 10,305 confirmed cases and 4,996 confirmed deaths overall¹. Coordinating Minister of Health Muhammad Pate had earlier said genomic analysis showed the Nigerian patient's virus was closely related to Kenya's first imported case, Premium Times reported¹.

Lab results for the two northeast suspects have not been released^1,2.

Not medical advice.