Chennai: Man shows no Ebola symptoms, discharged from hospital
Doctors in the hospital said the 25-year-old did not show any signs of the virus and his vital signs and blood tests were normal.
"He wanted to go to his hometown in Theni district and visit his father who is ill. As he was asymptomatic, we sent him home in a 108 ambulance. However, he will be monitored by local health authorities there," Dr. S. Raghunandan, deputy medical superintendent at the hospital, was quoted as saying by The Hindu.
The man on Saturday arrived in Chennai from Guinea.
"The person arrived from the Western African nation to proceed towards his home in Theni district of Tamil Nadu. A team of health workers who have been put at the airport to check all passengers arriving from the Western African region, where the Ebola virus spread has been reported by the WHO, detained the passenger on precautionary grounds and transferred him to the hospital," The Hindu reported.
A team of doctors and staff closely monitored his health in an isolation ward before discharging him on Sunday.
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday declared the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa an international public health emergency.
“I am declaring the current outbreak of the Ebola a public health emergency of international concern,” WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan told a press conference in Geneva, endorsing the unanimous recommendation made by Emergency Committee of International Experts on the current Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, and which has now spread to Nigeria.
“This is the largest, most severe, most complex outbreak in the nearly four decades history of this disease,” said Dr. Chan who also endorsed the temporary measures to reduce the spread of Ebola agreed upon by the Executive Committee and issues as a statement.
WHO says the incubation period, or the time interval from infection to onset of symptoms, is from 2 to 21 days. The patients become contagious once they begin to show symptoms. They are not contagious during the incubation period.
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