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Germany Quarantines Suspected Nigerian Ebola Patient

Health authorities in Germany have on Tuesday quarantined a 30-year-old Nigerian woman who showed has reportedly shown symptoms consistent with the deadly Ebola disease. Dozens … Continue reading Germany Quarantines Suspected Nigerian Ebola Patient


EbolaHealth authorities in Germany have on Tuesday quarantined a 30-year-old Nigerian woman who showed has reportedly shown symptoms consistent with the deadly Ebola disease.

Dozens of other visitors and staff at a Berlin employment office building were also stopped from leaving for several hours as emergency services sealed off part of the street.

The Bild daily newspaper said the woman had fainted, and that she said later that she had recently been in contact with people infected with Ebola.

Several people who had been with the woman inside the building in the northeastern district of Prenzlauer Berg were later also taken to hospital for testing.

Berlin fire department spokesman Rolf Erbe said that because the patient came from “an area affected by a highly contagious disease, we took these precautions.”

He said the testing in the city’s Charite hospital would take some time.

“The patient was isolated inside the ambulance, the staff took the appropriate protective measures. An emergency medic, the public health officer, arrived and the necessary precautions were taken,” he added.