A nurse suspected of being infected with the Ebola virus was hospitalized this Thursday around 1:45 p.m. in the infectious diseases department of the Bégin military hospital, in Saint-Mandé, on the outskirts of Paris. According to the first tests carried out, it would not be affected by Ebola.
This nurse would have been in contact with the humanitarian aid of Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which contracted the virus in Liberia and was then repatriated on September 18, also to Bégin hospital. Since then, the humanitarian aid has been declared cured.
The Bégin military hospital is one of the ten referral hospitals authorized to receive Ebola patients. Emergencies, whose waiting rooms had been previously evacuated of any patient, are confined until decontamination teams can clean the premises according to information from the Parisian.
In order to prevent any risk of an epidemic in our territory, the government has announced the establishment of a sanitary control device on arrival of flights from areas affected by Ebola. The Minister of Health, Marisol Touraine, specified that the checks would be carried out at Roissy on the daily Air France flight from Conakry, in Guinea, one of the main affected countries. Checks, carried out by the airport’s medical team, the Red Cross and Civil Protection, will begin on Saturday morning. They will consist of taking the temperature of the passengers when they get off the plane as well as filling out a traceability questionnaire in order to be able to contact people if necessary.
For any questions regarding the Ebola virus, a free number has been set up, it is 0800 13 00 00.
