A university student, H.Ö., was quarantined after arriving at a hospital in the western province of İzmir on Tuesday when medical personnel learned he had visited Somalia one month ago, causing them to suspect he could possibly be carrying the deadly Ebola virus.
The 20-year-old Dokuz Eylül University student was taken to the university’s medical faculty hospital because he running a high fever and vomiting.
Once medical personnel also learned that the student had been in Somalia about one month ago, they immediately quarantined him. H.Ö. was then transferred to Tepecik Education and Research Hospital, where he is still under quarantine.
The Ebola virus can cause fever, bleeding, vomiting and diarrhea and spreads through contact with bodily fluids.
Whether H.Ö. has the Ebola virus or not will be determined after the necessary medical tests are performed.
According to a statement from the World Health Organization (WHO) on Oct. 14, the death toll so far in the 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 previously spurred panic at hospitals in the country, with most of the patients suspected of having Ebola turning out to be suffering from malaria, Turkey has not seen a confirmed case of Ebola so far.
Source:Today”s Zamana
