All four suspected Ebola cases in Spain test negative for the disease…(What’s The Test??!!)
Air France traveller and a patient who had been in the same ambulance as nurse Teresa Romero Ramos remain in isolation
Ashifa Kassam in Madrid
The Guardian
Friday 17 October 2014
All four suspected Ebola cases admitted to hospitals in Spain on Thursday have tested negative for the virus in the initial rounds of tests, authorities said on Friday.
On Thursday, a passenger on an Air France flight arriving at Madrid’s airport was taken to hospital after he reported a fever and began trembling during the flight. He had travelled from Lagos in Nigeria to Madrid via Paris. He was brought to Madrid’s Carlos III hospital, the designated centre for treating Ebola patients in the city.
Another man, who had later travelled in the ambulance that carried Ebola patient Teresa Romero Ramos last week, was also admitted to the hospital after reporting a fever. Health authorities had been monitoring him after it emerged that seven patients were transported in the Romero Ramos ambulance before it was disinfected.
On Friday morning, authorities said both the Air France traveller and the patient who had been in the ambulance had tested negative for Ebola in the first round of tests. Both remain in quarantine while authorities wait for the results of the second round of tests.
A missionary, recently returned from Liberia, who was also admitted to the hospital on Thursday tested negative on Friday.
Fifteen other patients are in isolation in the Carlos III hospital. None of them have shown any symptoms of Ebola to date.
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