Ebola Scare For Aussie Man In Thailand

An Australian citizen who lives in Thailand has recorded an elevated temperature. He recorded the temperature post returning from the Democratic Republic of Congo and has been asked to stay at him home in Trat province, 312 kilometres southeast of Bangkok.

According to the Daily Mail, the man who worked in the oil-drilling industry, came back from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where 67 cases of Ebola virus were reported and 49 deaths as well, on October 17. Reports on October 26 suggested that the Thai public health office had asked Trat Hospital to keep the patient under investigation. He was tested at the Bangkok international airport when he was found to have an elevated temperature.

For about three weeks, he has been asked to stay home under observation until November 5. A doctor at the emergency unit at Trat Hospital told AAP that he just had to stay at home and didn't need to come to the hospital. For people, who could have come in contact with those patients affected by Ebola virus, they have been asked to have a mandatory 21-day quarantine returning to the United States of America from west Africa.

A British man who travelled from Lagos on October 7 was found dead in his apartment in Thailand on October 23. Initially, he was taken to a local hospital because he fainted and he was treated for a heart condition. The results of the blood tests of the man are yet to be revealed. Because of the death, 25 other people who were in contact with the man, are being monitored.

In another incident regarding Ebola, a young teenage girl from Brisbane was suspected of being affected by Ebola but she was cleared of the same, according to The Australian. Last October 26, she was taken to the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital because she complained of an elevated temperature. Her family, which has eight members including her six siblings, had come to Brisbane to start a new life from Guinea 12 days ago. The other family members showed no symptoms of the virus.