Possible NEW EBOLA case in Dusseldorf, Germany

A Man from Guinea went to a Hospital in Bochum and was put in an isolated Ambulance and was sent immediately to the University Hospital in Dusseldorf with the suspicion of having Ebola.

The only press release of the Health Department says, "a threat to the population caused by transportation or hospitalization is not possible."

The link is in German. As soon as I find an article in English I will post it.


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I'm still looking to find information on when the patient arrived in Bochum, when he went to the Hospital and how much time it took for the doctors to diagnose him. He could have been in contact with many people people until then.

a reply to: Hellas

good catch....at some point ebola will happen again...I will keep an eye out for english for this story

so I clicked on the upper right hand corner to translate...here is the link www.bild.de...

a reply to: research100

Still nothing on the international sites..

This week is the 20th Film and Animation festival in Stuttgart (www.fmx.de). I hope he wasn't trying to go there.

a reply to: research100

Ebola never went away, the media coverage did by order of those who want to pretend we won't find out. They tell themselves the blackout is to prevent hysteria. But, you can't hide Ebola. It lingers, mutates, and it doesn't discriminate. It does a lot more than the media and CDC disclosed. Do a bit of research. Zaire has always been a hot zone.

originally posted by: Ultralight
a reply to: research100

It lingers, mutates, and it doesn't discriminate.

It kills too fast to mutate, unless humans have mutated it. It's a nasty virus and I wish Africa wouldn't have to resort to eating bush-meat to survive, then potentially catching/spreading it.

a reply to: Neutrality

Ebola has various strains, caused by mutations. Medication that works usually does so only for that particular strain. If you're an Ebola survivor you could get a different strain.

Fire services transported the man from his home in Bochum to the University Hospital in Düsseldorf under intensive safety precautions. He is being treated in a special isolation unit, according to Reuters.

The authorities in North Rhine Westphalia have said that the case does not pose an increased threat to the wider population.

The man is said to come from Guinea, which, along with Sierra Leone and Liberia, is one of the countries most affected by the recent outbreak of the deadly virus.

The outbreak began roughly a year and a half ago and has so far taken more than 10,000 lives, the vast majority in western Africa.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently announced that the risk of the virus spreading into other countries has decreased.

The last case in Germany was reported in November 2014 when a Ugandan doctor was successfully treated at a hospital in Frankfurt after suffering multiple organ failures and being confined to bed for a month.

The Local

Living in Westphalia this is certainly not what I wanted to read today.