Brazilian man tests negative for Ebola after trip to Guinea
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[November 13, 2015]
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - A Brazilian
man who developed pains and a fever just days after returning from
Guinea has tested negative for the deadly Ebola virus but does have
malaria, Brazil's healthy ministry said on Thursday.
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If a second Ebola test comes back negative, the 46-year-old man will
no longer need to be isolated and the people he was in contact with
will stop being monitored.
Guinea is one of three impoverished West African countries, along
with Liberia and Sierra Leone, that have suffered with the most
deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus in recent years. A few cases were
also registered in the United States and Europe.
Sierra Leone and Liberia have been declared Ebola-free while a
handful of cases remain in Guinea.
The man sought medical help at an emergency room in Belo Horizonte,
the capital of Brazil's southeastern state of Minas Gerais, after
developing high fever with muscle pains and headaches two days after
arriving from Guinea.
The man, who was not named, was then quarantined and flown in a
military plane on Wednesday to Rio de Janeiro, where the government
has set up a lab to test blood samples for Ebola according to
international security protocols.
(Reporting by Caroline Stauffer; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
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