Brazil’s Health Authorities Investigating a Suspected Ebola Case
Health officials say initial tests were negative, but the patient remains isolated while Brazil awaits definitive laboratory results and tracks two suspected cases.
- Brazilian health authorities are monitoring two patients for possible Ebola in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, though both tested positive for other conditions while awaiting definitive results.
- More than 1,100 suspected cases and 43 confirmed deaths have been recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the rare Bundibugyo strain lacks specific diagnostic tools, delaying early identification.
- Regiane de Paula, health coordinator for the São Paulo Department of Health's Disease Control Coordination Office, emphasized that the risk of disease introduction remains very low, citing absent direct flights.
- Authorities activated strict safety protocols including isolation and laboratory follow-up; the patient in São Paulo remains intubated at Emilio Ribas Hospital, the Health Ministry and Sao Paulo Health Secretariat said.
- Test results for both patients are expected next week, as the World Health Organisation continues monitoring global spread, including a previously confirmed case of an American citizen being treated in Germany.
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Brazilian health authorities investigate two suspected cases of Ebola in the cities of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, amid international concern over the outbreak that affects Central Africa.The first case concerns a 37-year-old man from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a country that declared a new epidemic of the disease on May 15.According to the Governorate of Sao Paulo, the patient presented symptoms such as fever, so he meets the…
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