Ghana Records First Case of Ebola?

Ghana may now have recorded
her first Ebola case. Reports
say a Burkinabe man, who had
fever and bled from his nose
and ears was rushed to Bawku
Presby Hospital in the Upper East Region from
Burkina Faso
Friday afternoon.
The man had come down with
a fever while in neighbouring
Burkina Faso and was taken to
a hospital for treatment in
that country but saw no
improvement in his condition. His relatives then
decided to
transport him across the
common border between
Burkina Faso and Ghana’s
Upper East region, for proper
care. But he died on the way.
The Medical Director at the
hospital, Dr Joseph Yaw Manu,
confirmed to
StarrFMonline.com that the
man had died at the time he
was brought in, saying:-
What scared me most as a
medical doctor is that he was
bleeding from his ears and
nose – symptoms of Ebola.”
On Dr Manu’s orders, blood
samples from the deceased have been taken to the
Noguchi Memorial Institute for
Medical Research (NMIMR) at
the University of Ghana for
testing. If positive, this would
be Ghana’s first confirmed case of the virus, which
has
killed at least 961 people in
the West African sub-region
out of 1,779 total cases. Sierra
Leone, Liberia and Guinea are
among the hardest hit countries.
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