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  • Germany: Possible Ebola case in Hamburg - Ruled out

    (machine translated)

    Ebola-Verdacht in der Hansestadt! Ein Mann (28) aus Freetown (Sierra Leone) soll das tödliche Virus nach Deutschland gebracht haben.


    Ebola suspected in Hamburg! A man (28) from Freetown (Sierra Leone) said to have brought the deadly virus to Germany.

    The man should be reached on August 7 over Paris in the Hanseatic city. From then on he was staying in a hostel in Hamburg-Hummelsb?ttel.

    On Saturday, the man complained then against 14 clock, fever and vomiting. With an ambulance he was taken to the hospital Heidberg. There he came to the emergency room. When asked whether he had come with Ebola patients in contact, he was initially no response. Then he was transferred to a isolation room.

    To 22 clock the man was eventually supplied with an infection ambulance to a special ward in the University Hospital Eppendorf (UKE). The car was accompanied during the journey of more than six police patrol car.

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    Re: Germany: Possible Ebola case in Hamburg

    Source: http://en.ria.ru/society/20140810/19...ted-Ebola.html

    10/8/2014 16:26
    RIA Novosti
    Germany Quarantines Patient With Suspected Ebola

    MOSCOW, August 10 (RIA Novosti) - German doctors have isolated a patient showing symptoms of the deadly Ebola virus, Bild newspaper writes Sunday.

    A man who recently came from Sierra Leone, where the virus has already claimed 12 lives, sought medical help on Saturday due to high fever and nausea. He was admitted to the emergency room of a Hamburg hospital and isolated. He was later transferred to the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf accompanied by a convoy of six police cars. It remains unclear whether the patient had any contact with Ebola-infected people in Africa.

    At the end of last month, Hamburg's Bernhard-Nocht-Institute agreed to accept Ebola patients for treatment as requested from the World Health Organization (WHO)...

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      Re: Germany: Possible Ebola case in Hamburg

      Ebola ruled out

      10.08.2014

      Ebola-Verdacht in Hamburg nicht bestätigt

      Erster Ebola-Verdacht in Deutschland: In Hamburg wurde ein Mann aus Sierra Leone mit Ebola-ähnlichen Symptomen auf eine Isolierstation verlegt. Mittlerweile steht jedoch fest, dass er nicht an der gefährlichen Krankheit leidet.
      ?Addressing chronic disease is an issue of human rights ? that must be our call to arms"
      Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief The Lancet

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