Microbiology

A Nigerian passenger, who arrived in Turkey early Aug. 12, created panic when she became ill onboard a Turkish Airlines plane flying from Lagos to Istanbul, prompting authorities to take measures against a possible case of the Ebola virus.

The 32-year-old woman reportedly fell ill to fever and vomited during the flight before the pilot demanded paramedics to the plane upon arrival.

As the world scrambles to stem the rapid spread of the killer Ebola virus, the World Health Organization hosted a meeting on Monday to discuss the ethics of using experimental drugs.
      

Nigeria on Monday confirmed a new case of Ebola in the financial capital Lagos, bringing the total number of people in the country with the virus to 10.
     
Health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said the latest confirmed case was a female nurse who came into contact with a Liberian-American man, Patrick Sawyer, who died of Ebola in a Lagos hospital on July 25.
      

Sales of meat in Macedonia have dropped sharply since reports broke two weeks ago that infected meat had led to four people dying from listeriosis.

The male patient from Ploiesti admitted to the "Matei Bals" National Institute in Bucharest on Sunday was diagnosed with malaria, the institute's manager Adrian Streinu Cercel told a press conference on Monday.

Streinu Cercel said the patient was transferred to the Victor Babes Hospital, the tropical disease unit.

The Romanian embassies in West Africa have received no requests for assistance for the repatriation of Romanian citizens and were neither informed about possible cases of Romanian citizens infected with the Ebola virus in the West African states, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) announced on Sunday in a release sent to AGERPRES.

The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak an international public health emergency – its highest-level alert possible, Friday.

"The possible consequences of further international spread are particularly serious in view of the virulence of the virus," the UN health agency said in a statement, following a two day meeting in their headquarters in Geneva.

With ebola spreading across West Africa, the parallels between the modern affliction and the plague of the Middle Ages is unavoidable.

A Greek man who was suspected of being infected with the Ebola virus has tested positive for malaria, health authorities said Friday.

West Africa’s Ebola epidemic is an “extraordinary event” and now constitutes an international health risk, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Aug. 8.