Benin hospital treating Nigerian Ebola suspect- tests are negative

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Benin hospital treating Nigerian Ebola suspect: health minister
Reuters
3:10 p.m. EDT, August 7, 2014

COTONOU (Reuters) - A hospital in Benin is treating a Nigerian man suspected of having contracted Ebola and authorities have sent a sample of his blood to Senegal for testing, Health Minister Doroth?e Gazard said on state television on Thursday...

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Public Health / Ebola: a suspected case in Porto-Novo

Posted by: Adjinakou August 7, 2014

The Ebola virus that spreads terror in several countries in the sub-region rampant there already in Benin? The concern becomes great since hours in Porto-Novo. Indeed, the medical profession of the county hospital Ou?m? and Plateau is currently on the trail of a transferred case directly from Lagos (Nigeria) and admitted to the emergency center in the evening of Wednesday 06 August 2014 .

While waiting for the results of the latest tests, the physician confirms that the patient has all the physical traits of a person with Ebola virus. It was at about 16 hours that an ambulance coming from Nigeria stopped in front of the emergency department of the county hospital Ou?m? and plateau. On board the vehicle, a patient whose case appears very critical. "The patient is of Nigerian origin. He was transferred directly from Lagos to Benin, "informs one of the hospital staff met at the entrance of the service. After the consultation, the doctor adds, "the patient presents disturbing traits. We noted a sudden onset of fever, intense weakness, muscle pain, headache and sore throat. These symptoms are followed by vomiting, diarrhea, rash, kidney and liver failure and internal bleeding. "The man in the blouse makes nevertheless a nuance. According to him, other types of tests will put the final diagnosis of infection by the Ebola virus. A sample of the patient's blood is made to be analyzed at the national laboratory. In waiting a few questions arises : why have transferred a patient of this type from his country to Benin? If the test was positive, what protection is available to other patients admitted to the referral hospital which already let go of fear? We will return ...

Charles Honvoh

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Ebola: Benin awaiting the results a suspected case

Olivier C Ribouis August 7, 2014

Since Wednesday evening rumor has it that a suspected case of infection by the Ebola virus was discovered in Benin. From sources close to the Ministry of Health, we learn that samples from the patient are being analyzed. Results will be available by Thursday evening for the Beninese already alerted from mouth to ear to definitively know.

According to rumors, it would be a Nigerian trader who is seriously ill and hospitalized at county hospital Oueme (CHDO) in Porto Novo in the administrative capital of Benin. And also always by non official sources, the doctors responsible for the care fled in fear of being infected by the virus.

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Benin waiting for test results on two possible Ebola cases
AFP
32 minutes ago

Cotonou (AFP) - Benin said Thursday that it has placed two patients with Ebola-like symptoms in isolation and was waiting for test results to establish if the pair were infected with the deadly tropical disease.

Deputy chief of staff at the health ministry, Moufalilou Aboubakar, told journalists that the two patients were being treated as suspected cases of Ebola and that blood samples had been sent to foreign labs for conclusive results...

...One patient was identified as a Nigerian man being treated at a hospital in the capital Porto-Novo.

The other is at hospital in the economic capital Cotonou...

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Benin reports two Ebola cases

8 August 2014


Benin has reported two cases of the deadly Ebola virus in the west African country.

Health Ministry official Aboubacar Moufiliatou said that a man suspected to have contracted the virus had died.

http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/170078/benin-reports-two-ebola-cases.html

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Test results negative on two possible Ebola cases in Benin
AFP
By Sia Kambou | AFP ? 48 minutes ago


Tests on two patients in the west African country of Benin have proved negative for Ebola, the country's health minister said on Monday.

"The samples that were sent to a specialist hospital in Lagos came back negative," Dorothee Akoko Kinde-Gazard told reporters.

Tiny Benin shares a common border with Nigeria, where 10 people have contracted Ebola. Of those, two have died.

One of the two patients in Benin who presented with Ebola-like symptoms was identified as a Nigerian man. He was treated at a hospital in the capital Porto-Novo.

The other was at a facility in the economic capital, Cotonou, which is just a few hours' drive from Lagos, where all the Nigerian Ebola cases have been identified...

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Benin: the government ordered the closure of traditional morgues

French.china.org.cn | Updated 18-08-2014

Benin's government ordered the closure of traditional morgues over the entire national territory, to protect the people of Benin against certain diseases including the Ebola virus,did we learned said Sunday by official sources in Cotonou.

According to the source close to the Beninese government, these illegal structures operating in unhygienic conditions may be the cause of many infectious diseases.

"The unhygienic conditions in which traditional morguiers keep and treat dead bodies in houses can promote the spread of certain diseases, especially those that claimed the deceased patient ," the source said, adding that if was a patient carried away by the Ebola virus, all persons having contact with the body of the deceased will all be swept away by the same virus.

In Benin, do we indicated, there was a very long time methods for preserving bodies which consisted for example to make the dead swallow a significant amount of sodabi (alcohol distilled from palm wine), possibly with coal .

It seems that this technique has previously helped to conserve the body in relatively good condition for about a week.

Today, the preservation of dead bodies at home seems to remain the norm among the poor in some rural areas at least, while transit through the morgue concerns the great majority of bodies in urban centers.

The use of this traditional form of preservation of dead bodies in houses allows the lengthening of the period between the death and the funeral, especially in rural areas, where the funeral of elderly , with adult children who have at heart to organize important funerals for their parents. F

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