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A 30-year-old collapsed in a Berlin Job Center with infection symptoms. As an employee of the authority suspected the woman might be suffering from Ebola, it came to a large-scale operation. According to firefighters, the woman had the typical symptoms.

Excitement in a job center in Berlin-Pankow: On Tuesday morning has a 30-year-old woman suffered with symptoms of an infectious disease a circulatory collapse. According to media reports, an employee of the employment office had expressed a suspected Ebola, after which the area was cordoned off.

The 30-year-old patient showed the typical signs of infection such as high fever, said a fire service spokesman before the job center. According to her, one ambulance was on the way to the job center, the police closed the area for safety from a wide area.
As the “Berliner Zeitung” reported to the 30-year-old said they have had contact with Ebola patients in their home country. According to reports, the woman originates from West Africa, but details of their origin not made ​​the authorities.

The woman was isolated in only one ambulance and then taken for examination in the infectious diseases ward of the Virchow-Klinikum of the Charité Berlin. There is an isolation ward for cases of the disease. As the fire brigade spokesman said, the people who had contact with the woman were taken to a hospital. Other visitors were allowed to leave the building now again. On request by media, the Charité has not commented on the incident.

Many infectious diseases such as malaria or flu (influenza) begin with the same non-specific symptoms such as the Ebola disease: fever, headache and body aches and vomiting and diarrhea. To confirm infection with the Ebola virus, laboratory analyzes are necessary. Ebola can be detected only through a blood test.

In Spain, a suspected Ebola case was on Tuesday again occurred: Due to possible infection, a patient in the Basque economic center in Bilbao was placed in the quarantine unit of a hospital. As health authorities said, the man had recently returned from a business trip from the West African country of Sierra Leone. Laboratory investigations should now clarify whether he has been infected with the dangerous virus.

In West Africa the figures of Ebola victims continue to rise. Alone between 14 and 16 August have been reported according to the World Health Organization (WHO) 113 new confirmed cases and suspected cases. Thus, a total of 84 of these patients died within these three days.

So 1229 people have died from Ebola official reportedly now. But the health authority is concerned that the number of cases in truth could be much higher: Especially in rural areas, not all diseases and deaths are registered by the national authorities.

Of the 1,229 registered deaths were 760 clearly confirmed as a result of infection with the Ebola virus, the WHO said on Tuesday. With the other deaths a reasonable suspicion of Ebola there. The reason for this difference: Dead, in which a Ebola infection was not found in his lifetime, are no longer tested retrospectively for safety on Ebola.

The efforts to curb the epidemic had been further strengthened, the WHO reported: The governments of the countries concerned have therefore now set up several quarantine zones. This includes entire cities – including Guéckédou in Guinea, Kenema and Kailahun in Sierra Leone and Liberia in Foya.

Meanwhile, the 17 patients who had fled have reappeared three days after the assault and robbery of an isolation ward for Ebola patients in Liberia’s capital Monrovia. The missing person had himself reported in a hospital in the capital, Information Minister Lewis Brown said Tuesday. On the night of Sunday, a lot of mostly young people had stormed, looted and set free the patients housed there in the slums West Point recently decorated in a school infirmary.

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