Suspected Ebola case in Genoa. The third in Italy - first test indicates malaria

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After the doctor and nurse Pulvirenti Marongiu, both healed, comes the third suspected case of Ebola in Italy. A 25-year old engineer, originally from Sierra Leone, was hospitalized in isolation at the infectious diseases Department of San Martino di Genova, after you complained of fever. He would go alone in the hospital, suspicious by fever. Doctors took samples of his blood and have them sent to the National Institute for infectious diseases, Spallanzani, Centre of expertise for Ebola, for the investigations. The results will come in a couple of days.

http://www.globalist.it/Detail_News_Display?ID=79358&typeb=0&sospetto-caso-di-ebola-a-genova-il-terzo-in-italia

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Suspected Ebola sufferer has no fever

(ANSA) - Genoa, October 1 - A 40-year-old engineer from Sierra Leone who was placed in isolation Wednesday in the infectious disease ward of Genoa's San Martino hospital with a suspected case of Ebola does not have fever at the moment, doctors said on Thursday. "The therapy has brought down his temperature," said Giancarlo Icardi of the department of health science. "There are no other symptoms. This comforts us".

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2015/10/01/suspected-ebola-sufferer-has-no-fever_ededad51-819a-42a3-8aad-2a28a95dc83c.html

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HEALTH THE RESPONSE COMES FROM THE LABORATORY OF THE HOSPITAL SPALLANZANI EBOLA SUSPECTED IN GENOA.

THE FIRST TEST INDICATES MALARIA

The man was admitted yesterday in isolation in the Department of Infectious Diseases Hospital St. Martin

October 1st, 2015

Malaria and Ebola: this is the first response on blood tests of the engineer of the Sierra Leone hospitalized in Genoa. The response comes from the laboratories Spallanzani hospital. He informed the director of clinical infectious diseases Claudio Viscoli, stressing that it must be done a new test to 24 hours after the first. The man was hospitalized yesterday in isolation in the Department of Infectious Diseases Hospital St. Martin for suspected Ebola . "The therapy did lower the temperature. Other specific symptoms are not there. This is comforting," he said Giancarlo Icardi today, the Department of Health Science. The engineer had arrived in the city on 19 September for an internship. Coming from a country at risk, it had to undergo a special procedure which also provides daily contact with physicians. Yesterday warned them saying he had fever. At that point he was hospitalized after being taken from an ambulance, following all the precautions. In Sierra Leone people live in cities and not in rural areas most at risk for contamination with the virus.

http://www.rainews.it/dl/rainews/articoli/ebola-caso-sospetto-genova-primo-test-indica-malaria-79c6e9d9-fbca-4ca7-baf2-ebfdc02d72d5.html

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October 1, 2015

Genoa, false alarm for the suspected case of Ebola was malaria

The first test on the 25-year old native of Sierra Leone was negative. A second analysis is planned after 24 hours

17:32- The suspected case of Ebola reported in the morning at the hospital in San Martino di Genova was actually a case of malaria. A revelation was the first clinical trial carried out in the laboratories of the hospital Spallanzani sull'ingegnere 25-year native of Sierra Leone admitted to isolation ward for infectious diseases. To confirm the diagnosis expects a new test to be carried out 24 hours after the first.
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Arrived in the city on September 19 for an internship, the 25 year old was in the regime of "surveillance" by the ASL3 because coming from a country at risk . While it seems to "fit" the emergence of Ebola in West Africa , where the epidemic has It claimed thousands of victims, so there is no new case "Italian" to turn the spotlight on the virus. The other two Italians affected by the infection were both involved with Emergency In Sierra Leone, one of the countries where the epidemic is most prevalent: the Sicilian doctor Stephen Mead and nurse Sardinian Stefano Marongiu . Both, they returned from Africa, were treated in isolation at the Spallanzani , and both were able to defeat the virus. Thornton was discharged in January and in June Marongiu. The treatment protocols have therefore worked , although Marongiu were used drugs and procedures other than the "patient zero" Santos....

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