Ebola cases in East Africa? HT: Crof.
Via Hara Ethiopia: Ebola Outbreak Spreads in Ethiopia, Kenya and South Sudan as passenger dies at Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. Excerpt:
Health officials at Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) told Xinhua on Sunday that the female passenger on board Kenya Airways flight alighted at 6:45 p.m. with high fever and bleeding from the openings of her body.
“We have not established what exactly caused the death but medical officials including director of medical services are carrying out tests to establish the cause,” an official who sought anonymity told Xinhua by telephone.
The official said the female passenger who had arrived from Juba was later rushed to the hospital but died in the evening. The health ministry is expected to issue a formal statement concerning the incident later on Sunday to confirm whether the patient had Ebola. The incident caused panic at the busy airport which was immediately deserted for hours after the death of the passenger. However, the fate of the other passengers on the flight is still unknown.
In other developments
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health on Sunday disclosed establishing a modern laboratory center in a bid to control deadly Ebola virus after four reported cases of ebola in Addis Ababa.
The facility will start operating on Monday for tasting of four suspected cases of Ebola. A disease that medical doctors believe is Ebola appears to be suspected in the Ethiopian capital. One western African origin diplomat has been admitted for flu like symptoms in Saint Yared General Hospital. Three more people have been also admitted to the Black Lion hospital, with a reported cases of bleeding and fever.
I don't know Hara Ethiopia, so I don't yet trust its reliability. Xinhua has a report on its website saying Kenya has closed its border with Uganda after reports of case of Ebola in eastern Uganda. But it doesn't say anything about a dying passenger from Juba, which is the capital of South Sudan.
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