Suspected case of ebola in Enköping – the emergency room had to close

"Suspected case of ebola in Enköping – the emergency room had to close"

"the Hospital in Enköping, sweden received on Friday in a case of suspected ebolasmitta – then shut down the emergency room."

"the Patient was isolated and staff who met with the patient were recovered. "

"We are preparing as if this was an infection right now," said Michael Köhler, chief medical officer, Region Uppsala, sweden, in the early afternoon."

"At 20.30-the time it was announced that it was a false alarm. "

"At 12.44 sent the Uppsala issued a press release that the hospital in Enköping gotten into a case of suspected ebolasmitta."

"– the Patient presents symptoms last day and became ill now, it is what initiates it. He has shown symptoms that required emergency care. He came in with the ambulance to the emergency department in Enköping and in connection with the shipment on to the Academic sjuhuset appeared the suspicion up, said Michael Köhler, chief medical officer, Region Uppsala, then. "

" the Symptoms are bloody vomiting and bloody stools."

"the Patient and the personnel have been isolated"

"You said then that it strengthened the suspicion was that the patient had been in Burundi, a östafrikanskt country which, although it does not have any active infection right now, but that is in the vicinity of the affected areas. "

"the Patient is treated at the infection clinic at the Academic hospital in Uppsala and kept isolated."

"the emergency department at the hospital in Enköping, sweden was also closed on Friday and all the staff who had come in contact with the patient were recovered."

"– in The case of a number of people. They are in the workplace and we are trying to avoid contact with others, they are in a form of isolation in the workplace until we get information on what it is, told Mikael Köhler."

"At 20.30 o'clock on the Friday night was the test result is clear – and it turned out that the patient was not ebolasmittad."

"”The young man who came to the Hospital in Enköping, sweden, with symptoms including blood in the stool and vomiting is not infected by ebola. This shows the results of the test. Thus, these patients stayed in the emergency room in Enköping longer be isolated,” writes the Region of Uppsala in a press release."

"Source: Folkhälsomyndigheten"