Spain: Suspected ebola case in Bilbao- Negative

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Source: http://www.thespainreport.com/10465/...ocols-another/

Health Authorities In Bilbao Activate Ebola Alert Protocols After Spaniard Returns From Sierra Leone
By Matthew Bennett | August 18th, 2014

NEWS?BASQUE COUNTRY?EBOLA: The new suspected case follows a scare in Alicante over the weekend. Spain?s Health Ministry admitted ?at least 10″ Ebola tests have been done since April.

The Basque regional health authority activated the Ebola alert protocol on Monday evening after a middle-aged man from the province of Vizcaya was admitted to the Basurto University Hospital in the city of Bilbao with a fever.

He had recently returned from a business trip to Sierra Leone and is now in isolation after being transferred from Cruces Hospital, where he turned up initially.

Basurto University Hospital is one of two reference hospitals in the Basque Country for treating Ebola cases...

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Re: Spain: Suspected ebola case in Bilbao

A man has tested negative for the deadly Ebola virus in the northern Spanish city of Bilbao after returning from the African nation of Sierra Leone with a high fever several days ago.

The middle-aged man who is being kept in isolation at the city's Basurto hospital does not have the deadly disease, El Correo newspaper reported on Tuesday.

However, tests carried out at Madrid's Carlos III hospital indicated the man who was in Sierra Leone on business may be suffering from malaria, which presents with symptoms similar to Ebola.

His condition has been described as stable.

http://www.thelocal.es/20140819/spanish-man-tested-for-ebola-in-bilbao-spain

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Re: Spain: Suspected ebola case in Bilbao- Negative

Source: http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article...aspx?id=236260

Possible Spanish Ebola victim suffers from malaria
Aug 20,2014

MADRID, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- A man admitted to a Spanish hospital on suspicion of contracting Ebola virus is not suffering from the disease, it was confirmed by the Basque Regional Health Authority on Tuesday afternoon...

..The tests were carried out in the laboratory of the Carlos III Institute in Majadahonda, close to Madrid and confirmed the patient does not have Ebola virus, but malaria and this is now being treated....