Albania detains 5 illegal Eritrean immigrants with suspected Ebola symptoms

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Albania detains illegal Eritrean immigrants with suspected Ebola symptoms
Aug 13,2014
TIRANA, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Albanian police Tuesday detained some 40 illegal immigrants from Eritrea, five of whom have symptoms of the deadly Ebola haemorrhagic fever.

Local media said the illegal immigrants were arrested near the city of Vlore, in south Albania. The five who have suspected symptoms were taken to a local hospital for further tests.

There's no exact statistics of refugees coming from poor and war-torn African countries to Albania. Official data shows that in the first half of 2014, about 500 Eritrean and Somali immigrants were detained in Albania. Their destination is some of the Western European countries.

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News 14 Aug 14
Africa Migrants Trigger Ebola Panic in Albania

The detention of 38 migrants from the horn of Africa triggered a brief false alarm about deadly Ebola virus.
Gjergj Erebara
BIRN
Tirana

Albania is recovering from false Ebola alarm after police detained 38 Eritrean immigrants in a mountainous area and arrested two suspected traffickers on Tuesday.

Fears of an outbreak of the deadly virus spread after medics in Vlora, 145km south of the capital, Tirana, told local media that samples from the African migrants had been sent for testing at the Public Health Institute, ISHP, in Tirana.

Silva Bino, from the Public Health Institute, dismissed the scare, however. ?There is nothing there,? she said. Eltar Deda, from the Ministry of Health, told BIRN that immigrants received medical help but no treatment related to Ebola was necessary.

Albania is often used as transit point for African migrants trying to reach Western Europe from Greece. They pay local people to smuggle them across the border from Greece and further north toward Montenegro. Albanian police usually detain them for a few days and then let them go...