Ebola Arrives In Senegal As Outbreak Accelerates

Publisher:
Wochit
Publication Date:
29 August 2014
Tags:
West Africa, Senegal, Health and Medicine

The Ministry of Health said Friday that a man infected with Ebola traveled to Senegal, bringing to the country the first confirmed case of the dreaded disease that has hit four other West African nations and killed more than 1,500 people. Minister Awa Marie Coll Seck told reporters that the infected person, a university student from Guinea, sought treatment at a hospital in Senegal's capital, Dakar, on Tuesday but gave no indication he might have Ebola.

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