The Health Service Executive have said that there is nothing to be worried about as far as they are concerned.
After reports today that a patient with a suspected case of Ebola was headed to an isolation unit at the Mater Hospital in Dublin, the HSE have told the Indo that there are no confirmed or suspected cases in the country.
The HSE told the paper:
“There are no confirmed, or suspected, cases of Ebola in Ireland,” a HSE spokeswoman said.
“The National Isolation Unit in the Mater Hospital is used for patients with a variety of infectious diseases. Negative pressure is a feature of this specialist facility, as part of normal infection control procedures.”
The disease, which has killed over 1,000 people in west Africa since the recent outbreak, is highly infectious though it is not an airborne disease, so the World Health Organisation is hopeful that its spread can be curtailed.
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