A 27-year-old man has been quarantined at a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam after traveling back from Africa with Ebola symptoms, local media reported on Sunday.
The man from central Binh Thuan province arrived at Tan Son Nhat international airport in the city on 11, February with Ebola symptoms, including high fever and dry cough, the online newspaper VnExpress reported.
He had worked as a photographer in Sierra Leone where he was being treated as a tuberculosis patient. Doctors in Freetown had earlier also diagnosed him with pneumonia.
Because the last country of visit was Sierra Leone, a small country in West Africa and one of three countries affected by the biggest Ebola outbreak in 2014, he was transferred to the Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases to be quarantined and observed.
In august 2014 two Nigerians, who had arrived in Vietnam, and a 22-year-old Burmese national, who landed in Myanmar after a trip to Guinea and Liberia were tested for symptoms of the viral disease, according to AFP.
Health ministry officials in the Southeast Asian country told the French news agency that the Nigerians were sent to the hospital for tropical diseases where they were kept in isolation.
The outbreak killed almost 4,000 people in Sierra Leone since May 2014 before the country was officially declared free by the World Health Organisation in November 2015.
(C) Politico 16/02/16
