Ontario Hospital Treating Patient With Ebola-Like Symptoms

[B2G]

Source: NBC News

A hospital in Ontario, Canada, is testing a patient who recently traveled from Africa for Ebola, health officials announced on Friday.

The person was exhibiting symptoms that were common to Ebola as well as other diseases, like malaria, officials said. "Ontario's health care system is prepared to respond should an individual arrive with symptoms that could suggest a disease, such as Ebola," Dr. Graham Pollett, interim Chief Medical Officer of Health, said in a statement. "To date, there are no confirmed cases of Ebola in Ontario and the risk to Ontarians remains very low."

The Health Ministry did not specify where the patient was being treated or where they had come from — or even a gender — but the Ontario Star and the Associated Press reported that the person had recently arrived from Nigeria and was being isolated in Brampton Civic Hospital. The World Health Organization said Friday that Africa's Ebola epidemic was a global health emergency and could continue spreading for months. The virus has killed nearly 1,000 people this year.



Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/ontario-hospital-treating-patient-ebola-symptoms-n176691

[darkangel218]

1. I doubt they have Ebola.

It would have been confirmed by now.

[B2G]

2. Probably not, but

it can take several days to get the final results.

[darkangel218]

3. Correct. I doubt thats the case though.

They have preliminary tests which can lead towards a positive or negative before the 48 hours.

I'm willing to bet the patient doesn't have the Ebola virus.

[GeorgeGist]

4. Ooga booga ...

patient privacy be damned.

[B2G]

5. They didn't identify the patient nt

[CBGLuthier]

6. Do you know the patient's name? Or even their gender? If not how is this a violation of privacy?

And YOU might as well say public safety be damned.

[DhhD]

7. According to ABC News the man in Canada tested negative for the Ebola virus.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2014/03/25/canadian-man-tests-negative-for-ebola/

[B2G]

9. That article is from March nt

[hedgehog]

8. It's like when every kid has to have the latest I-Phone to stay cool -

Well, we have an Ebola patient, too!


Wait until the fall

"Ebola? That's so yesterday! We have patients with H1N1 flu!"

[VA_Jill]

10. Hell

Norovirus has Ebola-like symptoms too, and is more likely to be the case than Ebola…..and you can get norovirus anywhere, INCLUDING Africa!

[Marrah_G]

11. Canada did a great job handling SARS

[B2G]

12. Not really

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5223a4.htm