A man is being treated in isolation at Sweden's Uppsala University Hospital on suspicion of infection with Ebola after visiting Burundi, the regional authority said on Friday. The hospital's chief medical officer said the young man had been in Burundi for around three weeks, and was exhibiting classic symptoms of hemorrhagic fever, including vomiting blood. There is no knownThe epidemic in a volatile part of Congo is the second worst ever, according to the World Health Organization. The emergency clinic in the Swedish town of Enkoping, where the patient was first admitted, was closed and staff who had been in contact with him were being looked after. There is no known Ebola outbreak in Burundi, but it borders Congo, which has been fighting an outbreak for almost six months.

Source: CBC News January 04, 2019 15:22 UTC