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Test results from samples of suspected Ebola cases from the Ashanti,
Eastern and Upper East Regions have all proven negative, government
has revealed.
There was fear and panic across the country following the death of a
man who crossed the border from Pusiga in the Upper East Region to
seek health healthcare at Bawku.
A similar incident was reported at Nsawam in the Eastern Region on
Saturday when authorities at the Government Hospital quarantined two
suspects who had reported at the facility with symptoms of the deadly
virus.
But samples taken from all the cases – four from Ashanti, two from
Nsawam and one from Bawku – tested at the Noguchi Memorial Centre have
shown no traces of the virus in any of the patients, according to
government sources.
The Presidency will be meeting the Inter-Ministerial Action Group on
Ebola Monday, August 11, 2014 at the Flagstaff House to evaluate
Ghana's Ebola Response Strategy so far.
The meeting will be chaired by the Chief of Staff, Mr. Prospoer Bani.
There is no known cure for the deadly virus but the World Health
Organisation hopes to find a vaccine by 2015.
"I think it's realistic," Marie-Paule Kieny, Assistant Director
General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) told AFP, with clinical
trials expected to get underway soon.
The epidemic, which has mostly affected Guinea, Sierra Leone and
Liberia, has been declared an international public health emergency by
the WHO.
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