Bulgaria - Patient with flu-like symptoms and travel history to Sierra Leone being tested for ebola in Sofia - negative

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message on 11/20/2014

Today the Ministry of Health (MoH) has received information from "Tokuda" AD Bulgarian citizen residing in flu-like symptoms last month in Sierra Leone. The patient is examined and evaluated as a case subject to further clinical and laboratory studies. Placed in isolation mode at the Military Academy (MMA). According to accepted protocols for action recommended by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Disease Control (ECDC) and SRZI health authorities have taken the necessary steps to establish and isolate those who have been in contact with the patient. These measures will be in force pending the outcome of virological examination, which will come out in the late hours of the night. In the Ministry of Health headquarters function that maintains a constant connection with the Capital District Health Inspection (SRZI), MMA, "Tokuda" JSC National Center of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases and virological laboratory at him.
Ministry of Health will inform the public periodically.
Phones:
Dr. Vanya Sharkov - 0887 205 771 Vice - Minister of Health
Ruslana Petrova - 0887 650 752 Head office and advisor on media issues

 

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Re: Bulgaria - Patient with flu-like symptoms and travel history to Sierra Leone being tested for ebola in Sofia

Re: Bulgaria - Patient with flu-like symptoms and travel history to Sierra Leone being tested for ebola in Sofia

http://www.novinite.com/articles/16...lised+In+Sofia,+Officials+Doubt+Ebola+Version

A patient with symptoms, similar to those of Ebola, who recently returned from Sierra Leone, is hospitalised in Sofia's Military Hospital, Bulgaria's Health Ministry has confirmed.

According to the reports, seven other people who were in contact with the person are admitted for observation in the Tokuda hospital.

Medical officials however say analyses so far give them no ground to say his condition is caused by Ebola.
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Deputy Health Minister Vanyo Sharkov told the Bulgarian National Television it was not very likely for the man to have Ebola.

 

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Re: Bulgaria - Patient with flu-like symptoms and travel history to Sierra Leone being tested for ebola in Sofia

Re: Bulgaria - Patient with flu-like symptoms and travel history to Sierra Leone being tested for ebola in Sofia

http://www.novinite.com/articles/164900/Sofia+Patient+Uninfected+with+Ebola,+Tests+Show

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Tests of the 57-year old patient have shown that he wasn't infected with Ebola, BNT said.

Twenty-five people suspected to have been in contact with the patient were placed under medical observation on Thursday. They were released later after suspicions they might have been infected were dropped, Deputy Health Minister Vanyo Sharkov told Nova TV.
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