A Nigerian woman was
rushed to hospital and hundreds of people were quarantined today after
she showed symptoms of Ebola virus infection in a jobcentre in Germany.
As
many as 600 visitors and staff at the employment office building in
Berlin were also stopped from leaving for several hours as emergency
services sealed off part of the street.
The
mass-circulation daily Bild said the Nigerian woman had fainted, and that she said later that she had recently been in
contact with people infected with Ebola.
He said the testing in the city's Charite hospital would take some time.
'The
patient was isolated inside the ambulance, the staff took the
appropriate protective measures. An emergency medic, the public health
officer, arrived and the necessary precautions were taken,' he added.
The woman
had turned up at the employment bureau with a high fever. A spokesman
for the city's health authority said emergency services were called
after the woman collapsed.
All 600 people quarantined within the centre were in the suspected victim's vicinity before she collapsed.
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