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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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http://www.rundschau-online.de/politik/epidemie-patient-mit,15184890,29473570.html
