All clear at Ebola suspicion in Frankfurt

Health Department: All clear for Frankfurt Ebola suspected case

08/16/2014

On Friday, a suspected case of Ebola temporarily caused a stir at Frankfurt Airport. A passenger of a machine coming from Africa had suffered from a fever, one of the typical Ebola symptoms. On the part of the public health department has now been informed that an Ebola infection could be excluded.

Airplane passenger with flu-like symptoms
At Frankfurt Airport on Friday, a suspected Ebola case briefly caused a stir. According to a spokeswoman for the operating company Fraport, a passenger from a machine coming from Africa suffered from mild, flu-like symptoms. This reports „RP Online“. He was then examined by a doctor who did not detect Ebola disease. According to a news agency dpa, René Gottschalk, head of the Frankfurt public health department, announced that doctors at the Hessian Center of Competence had still cleared the plane, „that this infection can be ruled out by the passenger.“ Therefore, all measures taken as a precaution had been reduced again.

Suspicious case in Hamburg last weekend
As „RP Online“ writes, was a report of „Frankfurter Rundschau“ according to which the man had already been taken to the isolation ward of the Frankfurt University Hospital, denied by both the Fraport spokeswoman and the clinic itself. Already last weekend there had been an Ebola suspicion case in Hamburg, after a man from Sierra Leone was brought to a clinic on his return from Africa with fever and vomiting. It had quickly become apparent that there was no Ebola disease.

German government calls on Germans to leave Germany
According to experts, the risk of Ebola infection for foreigners in the affected West African countries is low, such as „RP Online“ reported. Accordingly, a contamination by the air as a flu infection is not possible. Nevertheless, the federal government calls all Germans to leave Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. A statement by the Federal Government states: „The only exceptions are urgently needed medical and humanitarian personnel in the fight against the Ebola epidemic.“

Already more than 2100 Ebola cases have been reported
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 1,000 people have died of this dangerous infectious disease, most of them in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. More than 2,100 Ebola cases have been reported to the WHO from the countries affected so far. As the organization announced on Friday evening, a total of 2,127 infections and 1,145 deaths were recorded by 13 August. Loud „RP Online“ So far, 1,310 infections and 712 deaths have been confirmed with a laboratory test. However, according to WHO estimates, actual case numbers are likely to be significantly higher. (Ad)