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Re: Kenya - 3 suspected ebola cases in isolation - tests pending
Map of Uganda and Kenya showing confirmed and suspected Ebola cases (post 30)
Map of Uganda and Kenya showing confirmed and suspected Ebola cases (post 30)
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Re: Kenya - 3 suspected ebola cases in isolation - tests pending
And another one tests negative...
Kenya: Ebola Case in Mombasa False Alarm - Government
Tagged: East Africa, Health, Kenya
By Wesonga Ochieng, 13 August 2012 Comment
The government has allayed fears that the Ebola virus has reached Mombasa after tests done on a suspected victim's blood turned out negative. Coast public health director, Anisa Omar, said the blood samples taken from a 61-year-old truck driver identified as Moses show he does not have Ebola.
The tests were done at the Kenya Medical Research Institute in Nairobi. Moses is believed to be at the Aga Khan Hospital where he is being monitored. Omar said the results indicate that Moses is suffering from normal fever and throat flu.
Moses operates trucks between Kampala and Mombasa. "What I can assure Mombasa residents and Kenyans at large is that the samples we took to Nairobi tested negative, confirming my earlier stand that there should be no cause for alarm. It was just a normal fever accompanied with throat flu," Anisa said on phone yesterday.
Anisa could not however confirm if the patient had been discharged from the hospital as our efforts to reach the hospital management were futile. The Ebola alarm raised fear among the patients in the hospital and the entire Mombasa county at the weekend. Kenya has been on high alert with people entering the country being screened for the virus.
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Re: Kenya - Suspected ebola cases in isolation - all cases negative so far - August 1, 2012 +
And one more negative...
Yet another suspected Ebola patient admitted in Mwanza
By Emmanuel Onyango
12th August 2012EmailPrintCommentsFears of a possible outbreak of the deadly Ebola disease are rising following fresh reports that another ?suspect? patient has been admitted at the Sekou Teure regional hospital in Mwanza city.
The patient is suspected to be suffering from severe symptoms that resemble those of the dreaded disease -- less than a week after news earlier broke in Karagwe district, Kagera region, claiming that a patient with similar symptoms was also hospitalized at Nyakahanga designated hospital in the region.
In the wake of last week?s reports from Nyakahanga, the government quickly dispatched a team of medical officers and nurses to the area, all fully equipped to thoroughly diagnose a patient whose symptoms had since not been fully confirmed to be that of the viruses that cause Ebola to date.
According to the Mwanza Regional Medical Officer (RMO), Dr Valentino Francis Bangi, the Mwanza case was first reported at the Sekou Teure regional hospital and later referred to Bugando referral hospital ? before the patient was sent back for readmission at the Sekou Teure facility.
The RMO told The Guardian On Sunday in a telephone interview yesterday that his hospital had received a patient on Monday this week who, upon proper diagnosis, was found to be suffering from dysentery and severe abdominal pains. The patient also suffered from urethral strictures, as a result of which he had difficulty passing urine.
According to Dr Bangi, the first onset of strictures often cause ?mental confusion? among patients. Such symptoms, he added, also cause ?fear among the people? but he has urged them not to panic or to be afraid when they come across such patients.
?It?s a normal disease ? despite its symptoms,? he says
He has also dispelled further fears of a possible outbreak of Ebola because his diagnosis on the patient, a young man aged between 23 and 27 years, displayed symptoms that were less severe than those seen in Ebola victims.
?I am 80 percent sure that the symptoms seen in the patient are not those of Ebola ?,? he argued.
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