Businessman hospitalized in Prague with Ebola-like symptoms
By Leos Rousek
MarketWatch.com
Oct 9, 2014
56-year-old Czech had recently traveled to West Africa
PRAGUE—A Czech businessman has been hospitalized with symptoms similar to Ebola after returning from West Africa, with authorities saying they are awaiting test results to confirm the country’s first case of the deadly disease.
“For now, the 56-year-old male patient is being treated in a quarantined ward,” said Martin Salek, spokesman for the hospital Na Bulovce in the Czech capital.
The hospital is equipped with pressurized boxes to prevent the infection from spreading, and health workers treating the patient use protective gear and body suits to avoid contracting the virus, Salek said.
