Two Nigerian passengers from a Turkish Airlines (THY) flight traveling from Lagos, Nigeria, to İstanbul on Tuesday morning have been put under medical supervision on suspicions that they have the Ebola virus.
Reports said a female passenger and her child were put under medical supervision after they showed symptoms of fever and vomiting at İstanbul Atatürk Airport.
The passengers were escorted off the plane by medical teams from the Directorate General of Health for Border and Coastal Areas and were transferred to a nearby hospital via ambulance. The medical teams suspect that the two passengers are carrying the Ebola virus.
The Ebola outbreak was first reported in February in Guinea, followed by its appearance in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.
More than 1000 people have died in these countries prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare the Ebola outbreak in West Africa as an international public health emergency that requires an extraordinary response to stop its spread.
Ebola has a fatality rate of up to 90 percent, and there is no vaccine or known cure.
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