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    Posted: August 17 2014 at 5:33pm

3 Ebola suspects at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital

NEW DELHI: Three persons from Ebola-affected Nigeria, who arrived here Saturday morning, have been admitted to the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital for screening and treatment if required. The three Nigerians, aged 79, 37 and 4 years had fever and their tests were being done at the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Delhi, an official release said here.

In addition to this, a 32-year-old Indian from Durg in Chhattisgarh who returned from Nigeria has been admitted to a hospital in Bhilai. His samples are also being tested at NCDC, the release said. WHO has said air travel, even from Ebola-affected countries, is low-risk for transmission of the disease. WHO has reported a total of 2,127 cases and 1,145 deaths due to Ebola from affected countries.


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Originally posted by Justintime Justintime wrote:

His samples are also being tested at NCDC, the release said. WHO has said air travel, even from Ebola-affected countries, is low-risk for transmission of the disease. WHO has reported a total of 2,127 cases and 1,145 deaths due to Ebola from affected countries.


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WHO guys are good politicians. Individually ( taking one person..) the risk is very low, for each. The situation changes dramatically if you take into account thousands and (on these thousands) search for some occurencies....than the chances get damn high...

clever use of words WHO.... congrats
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I live in east central Mississippi, in a small town. We had several businesses close for the month of July. The owners went to India to visit their relatives. If Ebola spreads to countries like that we will be seeing it here sooner then later. We have a small hospital here and we called it a band-aid station. It will be places like this that it will spread out of control.   
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Delhi: Nigerian National Tests Inconclusive for Ebola; Sample Sent to Pune

A Nigerian national has been kept under observation at a city hospital after his ELISA blood test for Ebola virus done at the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in Delhi was stated to be inconclusive.

The 79-year-old Nigerian national was among three persons from the country who were admitted on Saturday to Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital here for screening.

Blood samples of the 79-year-old have now been sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune.

"The 79-year-old male continues to be under observation. His test reports are awaited," said Health Ministry officials.

He has been kept in the Ebola ICU at the hospital.

"His blood samples have been sent to NIV for RT-PCR (real-time polymerase chain reaction). He was admitted to the hospital from the airport yesterday along with two other Nigerian nationals (aged 4 and 37), who were discharged today after they tested negative (for the virus)," said Dr HK Kar, medical superintendent of RML Hospital yesterday.

It is also learnt that the Indian national who was earlier admitted to a hospital in Bhilai has tested negative for the Ebola virus in tests done at NCDC.

Meanwhile, the quarantine-cum-isolation facility at Delhi airport has been made functional and all suspected Ebola cases would be sent there, ministry officials said.

Since Saturday evening, five persons of Indian origin -- aged 38(M), 38(F), 7(M), 2 (F) and 31(F) -- have been admitted to the facility with all of them being found negative for Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), the ministry said.

The Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) is tracking such passengers, whose details are provided to them by the Airport Health Organisation, it added.

Today, 90 passengers were enrolled for follow up in their respective states through state IDSP units.

A total of 267 passengers are at present being tracked.

Most of these are in the states of Maharashtra, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, the ministry said.

So far, more than 9,207 passengers from EVD affected countries have been screened at airports in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi.

World Health Organisation has reported a total of 2,127 cases and 1,145 deaths (as of August 13) due to the Ebola virus.

http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/delhi-nigerian-national-tests-inconclusive-for-ebola-sample-sent-to-pune-577326
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With regard to the low risk statement, the WHO has been known to downplay these things.   Even though patrick sawyer single-handedly brought it to Nigeria.  I'll bet Nigerian officials would dispute the low risk claims, as well as all the airlines that have stopped flights going to W. Africa.   The old WHO m.o and playbook is in full swing. 
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