Turkey - First Ebola case in Istanbul? HT: Crof.
October 16 report in Daily Sabah: Man with Ebola virus hospitalized in Istanbul. The complete report:
A man arriving from Ivory Coast infected with the Ebola virus has been hospitalized in Istanbul on Wednesday.
The patient was brought to the Marmara University Education and Research Hospital. He was diagnosed with Ebola after landing in Istanbul's Sabiha Gökçen Airport. The hospital was briefly quarantined and current patients immediately were transferred to other hospitals.
The patient will be transferred to Süreyyapaşa Breast Diseases Education and Research Hospital on Thursday morning.It's a dramatic development, if true. But I can't find confirmation yet in the Turkish online media.
The implications are pretty serious, however.
If the man was living in
Ivory Coast, he must have acquired Ebola there—in a country that has so far
escaped it, and which is economically far more significant than the hot-zone
countries. If he came from Liberia or Guinea, that's even worse—he might have
been infecting people en route.
If it's a real case, the Turkish authorities and media will let us know
very soon. If it's not, well, you can catch Ebola jitters even next door to ISIS
in Syria and Iraq.
Update: Yesterday Daily Sabah reported a man infected w Ebola hospitalized in #Istanbul. Today link to same story changes to a woman with malaria.
— Benjamin Harvey (@BenjaminHarvey) October 16, 2014
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