The Saudi Health Ministry says a Saudi national, who fell ill after returning from Sierra Leone, died early yesterday in his hospital isolation ward where he was being tested for the Ebola virus. The 40-year-old returned on Sunday from Sierra Leone, where there has been an Ebola outbreak and was then hospitalized in Jiddah after showing symptoms of the viral hemorrhagic fever. The patients samples are still being tested at an international reference laboratory on the advice of the World Health Organization. He had already tested negative for dengue fever. Different types of viral hemorrhagic fevers have been found in the kingdom, but the ministry statement said no case of Ebola has ever been detected there. Ebola, which has no proven vaccine or treatment, has so far killed more than 900 people this year in four countries in West Africa.
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 06:47:10 +0000
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