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  • Canada - Hilton Hotel under quarantine after ill woman hospitalized in New Brunswick

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    Hilton Hotel quarantine: Woman had visited a foreign country
    Woman taken to Saint John hospital

    CBC News Posted: Sep 07, 2014 1:43 PM AT Last Updated: Sep 07, 2014 4:11 PM AT

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    People at the Hilton Hotel have been told not to leave. (Matthew Bingley/CBC)


    The Hilton Hotel in Saint John, N.B., has been quarantined after a woman who just returned from a foreign country fell ill, according to a platoon chief on scene.

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    The lockdown sparked at the Hilton Hotel in Saint John, N.B., when a recent traveller from Africa fell ill has been lifted after doctors determined Ebola was not a factor.

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    Re: Canada - Hilton Hotel under quarantine after ill woman hospitalized in New Brunswick

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    Hilton Hotel lockdown lifted in Saint John

    Woman taken to Saint John hospital

    CBC NewsPosted: Sep 07, 2014 1:43 PM AT|Last Updated: Sep 07, 2014 5:47 PM AT

    The lockdown at the Hilton Hotel in Saint John, N.B., has been lifted after a woman who had just returned from Cameroon fell ill.
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    Dr. Scott Giffin, a provincial medical officer of health in Saint John, says with all the media coverage many people's first concern was the Ebola virus.
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    The woman remains in hospital.

    Giffin says people frequently come back from tropical countries with diseases.

    The lockdown sparked at the Hilton Hotel in Saint John, N.B., when a recent traveller from Africa fell ill has been lifted after doctors determined Ebola was not a factor.
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