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    S. Korean health care worker to arrive in Germany over possible Ebola infection

    2015/01/03 11:07

    SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Yonhap) -- ...

    The evacuation by Phoenix Air, a U.S. air ambulance company, came after the worker was determined to be at risk of exposure to the virus while collecting blood from an Ebola patient, according to South Korean officials.
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    "Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear."
    -Nelson Mandela

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    Patient with suspected Ebola is discussed in Berlin

    Created 01/03/2015

    Berlin.

    One patient from South Korea is being treated for Ebola suspected in the Berlin Charit?. The member of a South Korean medical team have been injured in a needle in contact with an Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, said the Berlin Senate Department for Health and Social Affairs is on Saturday. First, it was unclear whether he or she - sex and age were not named - is really ill with Ebola. So far, three Ebola-infected and treated were flown to Germany. Two survived, died in Leipzig a UN staff from Africa.

    The new patient was placed on Saturday morning on the special isolation Campus Virchow-Klinikum and already studied. The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified the case as urgent, said Berlin Health Senator Mario Czaja at a press conference. But the patient so far show no symptoms of the dangerous disease.

    The "critical incident" had occurred on December 29. "Ebola breaks but usually only about six to twelve days after infection," said the head doctor of the ward for infectious diseases, Frank Bergmann.

    Concern to the experts, however, the Ebola patient from whom the South Koreans could have been infected. "He died a day later and had a very high viral load." The concentration of the virus in his blood was therefore particularly high. The aid workers have slightly stung with a blood sample by three gloves in the finger after the Ebola patient had shrugged, explained the experts.

    "When the request was received by us, we have agreed to direct", Medical Director of the Charit?, Ulrich Frei said. "The team is well prepared." It is the first Ebola suspected case of one of the affected countries in West Africa, which is treated in Berlin. A threat to the population not exist. The patient was brought to a US specialty aircraft to Tegel airport and from there to the hospital.

    A special Airbus the Bundeswehr was likewise ready, this machine is but especially for Ebola patients who would intensive care. And that it was not necessary in this case. "The health status is currently very good," Bergmann said.

    Upon arrival the patients were bled. Whether its investigation brings clarity, but is uncertain. Ebola can often be detected only when symptoms were already occurred, said doctors miner. Hospital spokesman Uwe DOL assured, however, to inform the public as soon as there are new insights.

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    "Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear."
    -Nelson Mandela

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    • #3
      Date 03.01.2015

      Potential Ebola case being monitored in Berlin

      Doctors in Berlin are keeping watch over a South Korean medic who was exposed to the Ebola virus while treating a patient in Sierra Leone. The medic had suffered an injury with a hypodermic needle.

      The South Korean arrived on a special flight in Berlin Saturday to be monitored for symptoms of Ebola, doctors at the German capital's prominent Charit? hospital said.

      "The person wasn't flown to South Korea because the Korean government asked Europe to step in," Dr. Frank Bergmann, who oversees the hospital's treatment of highly infectious patients, said. "First of all it's good from a transportation point of view to come here and secondly it's better for the person's anonymity to be treated here in Europe," Bergmann added.

      He said both the medic and the government of South Korea had requested as few details as possible be released, so declined to give the medic's age, gender, profession or employer.

      On Monday, the medic had been treating an Ebola patient in Sierra Leone when the patient jolted, causing the needle on a syringe filled with blood to pierce the three plastic gloves the medic was wearing.

      "The patient had a very high viral load and died the next day, which means that there was a very high risk of infection," Bergmann said, although adding that the medic did not currently show any symptoms of Ebola. They will remain under close medical supervision until the end of the three-week incubation period for Ebola. Bergmann added that should the medic develop symptoms, doctors could use experimental drugs.

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      Doctors in Berlin are keeping watch over a South Korean medic who was exposed to the Ebola virus while treating a patient in Sierra Leone. The medic had suffered an injury with a hypodermic needle.
      "Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear."
      -Nelson Mandela

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      • #4
        S. Korean health worker tests negative for Ebola in preliminary test

        2015/01/04 10:11

        SEOUL/BERLIN, Jan. 4 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean healthcare worker feared to have contracted Ebola while based in Sierra Leone tested negative in a preliminary test for the deadly virus at a hospital in Germany, medical officials there said Sunday.
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        "Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear."
        -Nelson Mandela

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