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Two suspected cases in Italy (from Uganda)
In Lurate Caccivio, a small town in the Como area, the health protocol for suspected cases of Ebola has been activated. This was announced by the mayor Serena Arrighi, who in a note informed the citizens of the procedures put in place. And even the Ministry of Health with an official note speaks of "investigations on two people who returned from Uganda and were transferred to the Sacco". The two people would be part of a humanitarian mission.
Two people, who disembarked at 5.50 a.m. yesterday from Addis Ababa at Malpensa, coming from Uganda, had symptoms attributable to Ebola. For this reason, they were isolated and taken by the firefighters to the Sacco hospital in Milan to await the results of the tests: they were in fact subjected to all tests for diseases ranging from malaria to Ebola.
The two people who present the symptoms, both cooperators, are a 30-year-old man with fever, nausea and vomiting and a 33-year-old woman with a fever of 39, chills, mental confusion and vomiting. The two are in a group of 7 people - two families, one residing in Lurate and the other in another small municipality, Bulgarograsso - and among them there is also a one-year-old girl who has had malaria. For this reason, investigations are also being carried out to look for traces of Plasmodium, the parasite that causes this disease. In Uganda, at the moment, there are few certified cases of Ebola, much less numerous than those recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Among the people in quarantine in Lurate Caccivio was also the parish priest who allegedly came into contact with people who had returned from Africa.
The results of the tests for Ebola will arrive between late afternoon and evening today. Those for other diseases in a short time.
In Lurate Caccivio, a small town in the Como area, the health protocol for suspected cases of Ebola has been activated. This was announced by the mayor Serena Arrighi, who in a note informed the citizens of the procedures put in place. And even the Ministry of Health with an official note speaks of "investigations on two people who returned from Uganda and were transferred to the Sacco". The two people would be part of a humanitarian mission.
Two people, who disembarked at 5.50 a.m. yesterday from Addis Ababa at Malpensa, coming from Uganda, had symptoms attributable to Ebola. For this reason, they were isolated and taken by the firefighters to the Sacco hospital in Milan to await the results of the tests: they were in fact subjected to all tests for diseases ranging from malaria to Ebola.
The two people who present the symptoms, both cooperators, are a 30-year-old man with fever, nausea and vomiting and a 33-year-old woman with a fever of 39, chills, mental confusion and vomiting. The two are in a group of 7 people - two families, one residing in Lurate and the other in another small municipality, Bulgarograsso - and among them there is also a one-year-old girl who has had malaria. For this reason, investigations are also being carried out to look for traces of Plasmodium, the parasite that causes this disease. In Uganda, at the moment, there are few certified cases of Ebola, much less numerous than those recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Among the people in quarantine in Lurate Caccivio was also the parish priest who allegedly came into contact with people who had returned from Africa.
The results of the tests for Ebola will arrive between late afternoon and evening today. Those for other diseases in a short time.
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