The patient, a university student from Guinea, had sought treatment at a hospital in Dakar, Senegal’s capital, on Tuesday, August 26, giving no indication hehad the virus until an epidemiological surveillance team in Guinea alerted Senegalese authorities the next day that they had lost track of a person who had had contact with sick people. According to the team, that person disappeared three weeks ago and may have come to Senegal.The student was then tracked to the hospital in Dakar that same day and was immediately quarantined. A test has confirmed that he has Ebola, and the World Health Organization has been alerted.
It is not clear how or when the young man came to Senegal, which closed its border with Guinea last week. Seck said his condition is "satisfactory."
The Ebola outbreak ravaging West Africa began last year in Guinea. Since then, the disease has spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. More than 3,000 people have contracted the disease, which is spread by bodily fluids and for which there is no licensed treatment or vaccine. A separate Ebola outbreak was reported this week in Congo, where 13 people have died from the disease.
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