Reports Isis fighters have contracted Ebola are ‘incorrect’, says Iraqi health ministry
BEN TUFFT
IndependentUK
Friday 02 January
Reports that Isis fighters in Iraq have contracted Ebola have been refuted as “incorrect” and “unfounded” by the country’s health ministry.
Despite reports on Wednesday in the Iraqi paper, al-Sabah, that two cases of Ebola had been reported in Mosul in the north of the country, Ahmed Rudaini, the health ministry’s spokesman dismissed the speculation.
He said the disease could not have been registered, as only the Central Laboratory of Public Health in Baghdad has the “diagnostic capabilities” to confirm cases of Ebola which was reported by the al-Maalomah news website and the International Business Times.
The World Health Organisation also confirmed that they had received no confirmation of Ebola cases from Iraq.
Tarik Jasarevic from the organisation told The Independent: “WHO is aware of these reports and is working closely with Iraqi MoH to get more information.
“It is unlikely that this case can be a confirmed Ebola case as there is no laboratory facility in Mosul that could do an Ebola test.”
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