An investigation is under way into the source of an Ebola infection in a traveler from Guinea whose infection was detected in the Ivory Coast's major urban center of Abidjan, marking the country's first case since 1994.

In a statement today, Ivory Coast's health ministry said the patient is an 18-year-old woman who left the city of Labe in Guinea traveling by road, arriving in Abidjan on Aug 11. Her illness was identified and treated by health services the next day. Tests on samples at the Pasteur Institute in Ivory Coast confirmed her Ebola infection on Aug 14.

Officials said case is an isolated, imported infection, and the woman is at the Highly Epidemic Diseases treatment center at the University Hospital of Treichville.

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