Myanmar: Suspected ebola case

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Source: http://news.oneindia.in/internationa...r-1505785.html

Suspected Ebola case found in Myanmar
Updated: Wednesday, August 20, 2014, 14:29 [IST]

Yangon, Aug 20: Myanmar has discovered a suspected case of the deadly Ebola virus disease, the information ministry said Wednesday. A 22-year-old man, who worked in Guinea and Liberia in West Africa, was found during a screening of passengers at the Yangon International Airport Tuesday, Xinhua quoted the ministry as saying on its website. The man, who arrived from Bangkok and had a fever, was immediately sent to an isolated ward on the outskirts of the capital city for further confirmation whether he is really infected with the deadly disease, it added...

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Myanmar has quarantined a 22-year-old man suspected of having the deadly virus Ebola, while the results of a blood test to confirm this will be available in the next few days.

Than Than Htay, medical superintendent from the Waibargi Hospital which specialises in infectious diseases, said yesterday that the man is now in the intensive care unit, along with four others who travelled with him.

The man, and his four companions, returned home on Tuesday from Guinea in West Africa , and may also have travelled to Liberia. A thermoscan at Yangon International Airport detected that he had a high fever. He boarded Myanmar Airways International Flight 8M332 from Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport and landed in Yangon at 8pm on August 19.

"The sick passenger and four others are now in the ICU. His condition is good. He is under surveillance because of the high body temperature. We are running a test on their blood," the physician said.

Dr Soe Lwin Nyein, deputy director-general of the disease control department at the Ministry of Health, said that the National Health Laboratory Department took blood samples from the five persons and sent the samples to a lab in India that has the capacity to detect the virus.

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Burmese officials clear passenger feared to have Ebola Virus
Date : 21 สิงหาคม 2557

BANGKOK, 21 August 2014 (NNT) ?The Director General of the Department of Disease Control has commented on the initial outcome of a medical examination of a patient in question regarding the Ebola Virus. The man had traveled from Liberia and Guinea and transferred flights at Suvarnabhumi Airport before arriving in Myanmar. The medical authorities in Myanmar have given an assurance that the man's apparent illness was the result of malaria... It is expected to issue notice of a formal diagnosis within two days...