No ebola, malaria or suspected patient – Parool.nl

No ebola, malaria or suspected patient – Parool.nl

05-10-14 18:17 pm – Source: Reuters

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A doctor MSF when Ebola training. © AFP

The man who was yesterday unwell at the GP in Dordrecht and possible Ebola symptoms had shows, according to initial tests that do not have. deadly disease Reported that the Service Health & amp; Youth in Dordrecht and the Erasmus MC tonight. The man does have malaria. He is being treated for

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The Erasmus MC where the man was shot. Ebola symptoms © anp

It should be made with certainty even more tests can say that the man is not infected. Ebola has namely an incubation period of 21 days. The results of the additional tests are expected next week. These studies are conducted in the Rotterdam Erasmus MC and a German laboratory.

That the patient from Sierra Leone now has no ebola, means he recent times no other people could infect. During the incubation period, it is monitored by the health department. Should he still be sick or get certain symptoms, then action can be taken quickly.

Yesterday, the man became unwell in a GP in Dordrecht. He collapsed and was immediately isolated in the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Dordrecht. On the night he was transferred to the Erasmus MC, where he again was kept isolated from other patients. Physicians were allowed to approach him only when they wore protective clothing.

The area where the man was sick, is cleaned. Patients in the emergency department in Dordrecht have run no risk, stressed the hospital directly though. Also, people at the Erasmus MC are required, according to hospital not to worry.

Many suspicions
Since in African countries, many people are infected with the disease, there are also in the Netherlands regularly suspicions. End of September, at least 15 suspects. Were, according to the RIVM Possible that there are more. Moreover, not all reported suspicions because it soon becomes apparent that there is nothing to worry about. Until now, it was a false alarm every time in the Netherlands.

In the United States, Thomas Duncan is in critical condition at a hospital in the Texas city of Dallas. The Liberian recently came from Liberia via Brussels in the USA He would in Liberia a woman who helped to Ebola is deceased later

(Edited by: Editorial).