A man is being treated in isolation at Sweden’s Uppsala University Hospital on suspicion of infection with Ebola after visiting Burundi, the regional authority said on Friday. The hospital’s chief medical officer said the young man had been in Burundi for around three weeks, and was exhibiting classic symptoms of haemorrhagic fever, including vomiting blood. There is no known Ebola outbreak in Burundi, but it borders the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has been fighting an outbreak for almost six months. The epidemic in a volatile part of Congo is the second worst ever, according to the World Health Organization. The largest outbreak was one in 2013-2016 in West Africa, where more than 28,000 cases were confirmed.

Source: The Irish Times January 04, 2019 15:00 UTC