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University Student Suspected Of Having Ebola Quarantined In İzmir

22.10.2014 18:53

A university student, H.Ö., was quarantined after arriving at a hospital in the western province of İzmir on Tuesday, after medical personnel learned he had visited Somalia one month ago, causing them to suspect him of carrying the deadly Ebola virus. The 20-year-old Dokuz Eylül University student was.

A university student, H.Ö., was quarantined after arriving at a hospital in the western province of İzmir on Tuesday, after medical personnel learned he had visited Somalia one month ago, causing them to suspect him of carrying the deadly Ebola virus.

The 20-year-old Dokuz Eylül University student was taken to the university's medical faculty hospital suffering from a high fever and vomiting.

Once medical personnel learned that the student had been in Somalia about one month before, they quarantined him immediately. H.Ö. was then transferred to the Tepecik Education and Research Hospital, where he is still under quarantine. The Ebola virus can cause fever, bleeding, vomiting and diarrhea, and it spreads through contact with bodily fluids.

After the necessary medical tests are carried out, it will be determined whether H.Ö. has the Ebola virus.

According to a statement from the World Health Organization (WHO) on Oct. 14, the current death toll in this outbreak of Ebola, first reported in Guinea in March, has reached 4,447, from a total of 8,914 cases, and the epidemic is still spreading in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

The WHO has repeatedly said Ebola cases are underreported in the three hardest-hit countries and that understanding the scale and pace of the outbreak is crucial to stopping it.

Though a number of cases had previously caused panic at hospitals in the country, most of the patients suspected of having Ebola have turned out to be suffering from malaria, and Turkey has not seen a confirmed case of Ebola so far.

(Cihan/Today's Zaman)



 
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