Taiwan on alert amid Ebola scare in Hong Kong台灣戒備之中埃博拉病毒的恐慌在香港

CNA/AFP
August 11, 2014, 12:01 am TWN

"In the past one month ... he had no contact history with sick persons or animals and did not visit health-care facilities. He is currently in stable condition," a government spokesman said in the statement.
The man later tested negative for the deadly virus. Hong Kong's city government said in a statement late Sunday that the man had "tested negative for Ebola virus upon preliminary laboratory testing".The 32-year-old Nigerian man, who arrived in Hong Kong from Nigeria Aug. 7, was hospitalized with vomiting and diarrhea and has since been quarantined at a different hospital on suspicion of infection with the Ebola virus, according to the news report.

TAIPEI and HONG KONG -- Taiwan is now on alert as Hong Kong news media has reported a suspected case of the deadly Ebola virus, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said Sunday.

Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Deputy Director-General Chou Jih-haw said his agency has contacted the relevant Hong Kong authorities and is paying close attention to the matter.

Chou said Taiwan has formed an emergency response task force and strengthened other measures in response to the latest development in Hong Kong.

The CDC said Friday it had assigned a special unit to stay on top of the development of the Ebola epidemic, after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the deadly disease outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency.

The unit will work with the Immigration Agency and Foreign Ministry to provide visitors to and from the affected and at-risk areas with relevant information on the risks, measures to minimize those risks, and advice for managing potential exposure, the CDC said.

The affected areas are mainly the West African countries of Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria, where the number of Ebola cases stood at 1,779, including 961 deaths as of Aug. 6, according to the WHO.

台灣戒備之中埃博拉病毒的恐慌在香港

中央社/法新社
2014年8月11日，上午12:01 TWN

台北和香港 - 台灣現在是在提醒香港新聞媒體報導了致命的埃博拉病毒的疑似病例，疾病控制中心（CDC）的週日表示。

這位32歲的尼日利亞籍男子，誰從尼日利亞8月7日抵達香港，在住院的嘔吐和腹瀉，並已被隔離在不同的醫院對感染埃博拉病毒的嫌疑，據新聞報導。

該名男子隨後測試呈陰性的致命病毒。在一份聲明中後期週日香港的市政府表示，該名男子“檢查陰性埃博拉病毒經初步化驗”。

“在一個月內......他沒有接觸史與生病的人或動物，並沒有參觀醫療設施，他目前情況穩定”，在語句中的政府發言人表示。

台灣疾病控制中心（CDC）的副總幹事週日盛山楂說，他的機構已經聯繫了香港有關當局，並密切關注此事。

周永明表示，台灣已經形成了一個緊急應變小組，並加強其他措施，以應對香港的最新發展。

中華網週五表示，它已指派一個特別小組留在埃博拉疫情的發展之上，經過世界衛生組織（WHO）宣布在西非致命疾病的爆發是一個國際性的突發公共衛生事件。

該單位將與移民署與外交部合作，提供旅客往返受影響，並在風險與風險，採取措施盡量減少這些風險的相關信息，並建議管理潛在風險的地區，疾病預防控制中心說。

受影響的地區主要是幾內亞，利比里亞，塞拉利昂和尼日利亞，埃博拉病例的人數為1779，其中包括961例死亡為8月6日的西非國家，根據世界衛生組織。