Senegal Confirms Its First Case Of Ebola

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

The Senegalese Ministry of Health said Friday that a man infected with Ebola traveled to Senegal, becoming the first recorded in the country, of an outbreak that has hit four other West African countries and has killed more than 1,500 people. Health Minister Awa Marie Coll Seck told reporters that the infected person is a university student from Guinea who sought treatment at a hospital in Senegal's capital, Dakar, this week. She said the young man said he had had contact with Ebola patients while he was in Guinea, and was immediately put under quarantine.



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