The World Well being Group says new checks present Ivory Coast did not have a case of Ebola final month in spite of everything
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — New checks present that Ivory Coast didn’t have its first case of Ebola in additional than 25 years in spite of everything, the World Well being Group mentioned, reversing course after the reported case final month prompted 1000’s of vaccines to be deployed.
The preliminary report sparked worry as a result of the younger lady had traveled by bus for a number of days from Guinea to Ivory Coast, coming into contact with not less than 140 folks, well being officers mentioned.
She finally made her technique to Abidjan, the business capital of 4 million folks earlier than being hospitalized the place a check confirmed she had Ebola. Nonetheless, no different suspected circumstances emerged within the weeks since.
On Tuesday, Ivorian well being authorities knowledgeable the World Well being Group {that a} second laboratory, the Institut Pasteur in Lyon, France, had retested these samples “and has discovered no proof of the virus.”
“With the brand new outcomes from the laboratory in Lyon, WHO considers that the affected person didn’t have Ebola virus illness and additional evaluation on the reason for her sickness is ongoing,” the worldwide well being physique mentioned in an announcement late Tuesday.
Ebola is transmitted by coming into contact with the bodily fluids of an contaminated particular person or contaminated supplies. Nonetheless, the early signs of fever and muscle aches resemble different frequent ailments like malaria.
A 2014-2016 epidemic that started in rural Guinea finally unfold to the capitals of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Greater than 11,325 folks died in what grew to become the biggest Ebola outbreak in historical past.
Within the years since, two vaccines and new therapies have been developed to deal with the hemorrhagic fever that when killed greater than half its victims. These instruments helped to finish outbreaks in Congo and one other in Guinea this yr.