#Ebola: Nigerian woman quarantined in Singapore

Authorities in Singapore have sent a Nigerian woman  into a hospital isolation unit on suspicion that she might have the Ebola virus, the Straits Times reported on Thursday, 14 August.

The woman, in her 50s, was believed to have flown into Singapore recently and arrived at a hospital emergency department with a fever.

She was immediately isolated and transferred by ambulance to a communicable diseases centre, the newspaper said.

The Nigerian woman who was sent from Gleneagles Hospital to the Communicable Diseases Centre at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) on Thursday morning does not have Ebola as first feared.

However, Professor Philip Choo, TTSH’s chief executive officer, told The Straits Times that it was a false alarm and that she has since been discharged.

“We saw a patient with a history from Nigeria,” he said, but her detailed history revealed “no contact with any suspect or confirmed patients.”

Ebola is a highly-fatal viral disease that is spreading in West Africa, raising fears that it might spill over to the rest of the world.