Has Ebola hit a new continent? Authorities in Brazil test missionary who had travelled from Guinea for the deadly virus

Friday, October 10, 2014
By Paul Martin

By Jennifer Newton
Henrileriche.com
October 10, 2014

Has Ebola hit a new continent? Authorities in Brazil test missionary who had travelled from Guinea for the deadly virus
October 10, 2014 Henri Le Riche Africa, General, Global News, Health, Medicine, Science, South Africa, Story, Survival, United States 0 Comments

By Jennifer Newton

Fears are growing that the deadly Ebola virus has hit a new continent as a man in Brazil undergoes tests for the infection.

If the Brazilian case is confirmed, it would mean the disease has spread to South America for the first time.

The suspected patient is a 47-year-old man from Guinea, one of the African countries that has been ravaged by the disease.

An ambulance moves the first suspected Ebola patient in Brazil to an airport so he can travel to Rio de Janeiro for further treatment

He has been described in local media as a missionary and he was taken in an air force plane from the southern state of Parana to the National Infectious Disease Institute in Rio de Janeiro on Friday morning.

It came after he arrived at a health centre in the town of Cascavel with a fever the previous afternoon.

The man is thought to have arrived in Brazil from Africa on September 19 from the Guinean capital Conakry after flying to Argentina, with a layover in Morocco, then travelled overland to Brazil, seeking refugee status.

Has Ebola now hit South America? Man in Brazil having tests

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