Brazil’s Health Authorities Investigating a Suspected Ebola Case
Health authorities said the man was first treated in intensive care and later quarantined at Emilio Ribas Hospital while test results were pending.
- 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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Brazil investigates possible Ebola cases amid scramble to contain outbreak
The World Health Organization’s top doctor has traveled to the Ebola hot zone to help bring the unfolding crisis under control as suspected cases of the especially deadly strain of the disease top 1,100
Hospitals in Brazil Test Two Patients With Ebola-Like Symptoms
The director general of the World Health Organization has arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo as doctors on the ground race to play catch up against the third largest Ebola outbreak in history. In Rio De Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil, hospitals are testing two patients with Ebola-like symptoms. NBC’s Molly Hunter reports for TODAY.
One man, coming from RDCongo, tested positive for meningitis, still unsure for Ebola. Another man, coming from Uganda, tested negative. Both remain in isolation until the end of the investigation.
"The risk of transmission of the disease in Brazil and South America is considered low," said the ministry, while the presence of the virus was ruled out for one of the two patients, who arrived from DRC and Uganda.
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