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In Sweden, an inpatient whose symptoms were at the origin of a suspicion of Ebola infection was not infected with the disease, officials said Friday, Jan. 4.
"The symptoms were that we had to take this seriously," said the chief doctor of Uppsala County Council before announcing the results to the media.
He discovered that it was a young man who had visited Burundi three weeks ago but who had not traveled to areas affected by the virus Ebola.
A man is being treated at a clinic specializing in infectious diseases at the University Hospital of Uppsala.
The sick person first went to a hospital located in Enshop, near Uppsala.
In case of suspicion of Ebola virus disease, the man was transferred to Uppsala University Hospital. The Enough hospital reception area was closed and workers in contact with the patient were isolated and observed.
Analyzes have shown that a man is also not infected with yellow fever, tropical fever and Marburg virus, officials said. Doctors continue to perform tests to determine the diagnosis.
The Ebola virus spreads by contact with infected human blood and other body fluids. The mortality rates after infection are very high.
The signs of the disease are: high temperature, head, muscles, stomach pain, runny nose and other flu-like symptoms. Then, heavy bleeding begins.
In most cases, the outcome of the disease is fatal. However, rapid isolation and rapid treatment of symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea and dehydration have helped some patients survive.
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has killed hundreds of people. This DRC is the tenth outbreak of the Ebola virus since 1976, when this disease was identified for the first time by a team led by Belgian experts from Zaire at the time.
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