Rwandan German with Ebola suspicion

Ebola suspicion: German is being investigated in Rwanda

08/11/2014

A German medical student is being examined in a hospital in Rwanda for Ebola suspicion. The health ministry said the patient was lying on an isolation ward. He also showed Ebola symptoms after a stay.

Student complained of fever after staying in Liberia
In a hospital in Rwanda, a medical student from Germany is being investigated for Ebola suspicion. According to an AFP report, the health ministry said in Kigali on Sunday night that the patient was lying on an isolation ward. Samples were taken and sent to a laboratory. Within 48 hours a test result should be available. According to the ministry, the German had sued for a fever in Liberia and had malaria.

When Ebola suspect doctors respond carefully
The student spent a few days in the West African country that had declared the national emergency last week because of the plague. He is the first patient in Rwanda to be investigated for Ebola suspicion since the outbreak of the epidemic in West Africa. Since the epidemic has taken on increasingly devastating proportions, most physicians are also very cautious in non-directly affected countries when people coming from the crisis area experience typical Ebola symptoms such as fever, body aches, headaches, diarrhea, blood in the stool and urine , Nausea and vomiting are noticed.

New cases of suspicion from Senegal and Romania
On Friday, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Ebola epidemic in West Africa an international health emergency. According to their information, nearly one thousand people have died from the pathogen transmitted by body fluids, and nearly 1,800 people have become infected. New cases of suspicion were also reported from Senegal and Romania. According to the national media, a man in the city of Ourossogui in northern Senegal is suspected to have an Ebola disease.

Ebola suspicion in Hamburg has not been confirmed
Such a suspicion also exists with a 51-year-old Romanian engineer, who worked in the Nigerian capital of Abuja. The man was transferred from his hometown Ploiesti to the Bucharest Institute of Infectious Diseases „Matei Bals“ brought and quarantined. In Germany, the Ebola suspicion in Hamburg has not been confirmed. An African who had returned from Sierra Leone with fever and vomiting had been taken to the isolation ward of a hospital there. (Ad)