Monday, April 7, 2014

Fatal virus in Ghana tests negative for Ebola

Doctors work in a laboratory on collected samples of the Ebola virus at the Centre for Disease Control in Entebbe Blood tests have shown that a 12-year-old girl in Ghana who died of viral fever with bleeding did not have Ebola, Health Minister Sherry Ayittey said on Monday. "The report from the Noguchi Memorial Institute says categorically that the samples of the blood they analysed is negative ID Ebola virus and also negative of any common viral fever," Ayittey told a news conference. The girl was the first suspected case in Ghana of Ebola, which has killed more than 90 people in Guinea and Liberia.








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