The first patient was transferred yesterday after being admitted last Thursday (June 11) to CHU Grenoble.
The second patient, a migrant who applied for refugee status on French territory, is believed to have traveled to Congo and Sierra Leone, two countries where the Ebola virus outbreak has spread widely. Taken with high fever, he would have called Monday, June 15 the Samu of the station of Grenoble.
“A security perimeter has been deployed around the station. The man was admitted overnight to the Grenoble University Hospital before being transferred to the Croix-Rousse hospital in Lyon, the only establishment authorized in the region to receive Ebola patients, ”explains France Bleu radio.
In-depth analyzes must be carried out to determine the state of health of the two patients.
In France, for the past nine months, 675 suspected cases of Ebola have been reported in France. But none have been confirmed yet.
Suspicion criteria
A suspected patient is defined as any person presenting, within twenty-one days after returning from the risk area, a fever measured by a caregiver greater than or equal to 38 ° C, according to the Institute for Health Surveillance.
During incubation, between two and twenty-one days, the person is not or only slightly contagious. The risk of transmission increases as the disease and symptoms worsen. The disease is fatal in half of the cases, also explains the Institute.
Ebola around the world
The death toll from the Ebola epidemic in West Africa now stands at 7,693 out of a total of 19,695 cases recorded in the three most affected countries (Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea). In total, the virus has already killed at least 7,708 people around the world, according to the updated report from the World Health Organization. Apart from these three countries, the death toll remains unchanged: 6 in Mali where the last patient tested negative on December 6, 1 in the United States and 8 in Nigeria.
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