“This is to confirm which virus must have caused the infection and death and the result is expected on Monday October 12, 2015, ” he concluded. Health officials are investigating the case.
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Meanwhile, the management of UCTH said it had informed all relevant agencies about the development, including the National Centre for Disease Control, Federal Ministry of Health and Cross River government. “A few of his family members, especially the brother and sister had a history of chicken pox in the last one week, prior to his falling ill”.
A patient came to the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital on Wednesday with symptoms consistent with the viral hemorrhagic fever, staff there said.
“This incident has once again demonstrated that the fight against Ebola must be a ideal team work based on effective collaboration between Federal, State governments, partners and the private sector”.
The death created panic among the medical team that attended to him, 15 health workers and eight (8) patients who had direct or indirect contact with the diseased where quarantined.
A person who died in a suspected case of Ebola in Nigeria, triggering a scare and the quarantine of 10 others, did not have the deadly virus, World Health Organization spokesman Gregory Hartl said by email on Friday. Other hospital workers were provided with thermometers to monitor their temperature twice daily.
Sources said the body temperature of the patient also ran high, when he was brought in by family members, adding that the patient died shortly after samples were taken from his blood for investigation. Abdulsalam Nasidi, a team has been dispatched to Calabar to verify the case.
“There is no need for the public to be scared of EVD as it is not confirmed”, kalu said.
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He assured Nigerians that there was nothing to fear about as appropriate measures have been taken to protect the people and even those who might have had contact with the patient. The virus, which broke out in March past year, has killed around 11,000 people, mostly in the manor river area of West Africa, which recorded its first Ebola outbreak.
