Saturday, 9 August 2014

Ghana Records First Case of Ebola

It seems Ghana just may have recorded her first case of Ebola. It is reported that on Friday afternoon, a Burkinabe man, who had general symptoms of Ebola including fever, nose and ear bleeding, was taken to the Bawku Presbyterian Hospital dead on arrival. The man was brought through the border from Burkina to Ghana by his relatives, who wanted proper medical care for him but he died on the way.


Dr Joseph Yaw Manu, confirmed to StarrFMonline.com that the man had died at the time he was brought in, saying: "What scared me most as a Medical Doctor is that he was bleeding from his ears and nose–symptoms of Ebola."
Dr. Manu of the Bawku Presby hospital has since sent blood samples of the deceased for testing at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR) at the University of Ghana.

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