A traveller returning to Canada from west Africa has been hospitalized after displaying symptoms of the Ebola virus that has killed dozens in Guinea. A health official said the casualty had been in Liberia and developed the symptoms after landing in Canada. The patient would not have been contagious when travelling and was now in isolation pending test results. Aid workers and health officials in Guinea are battling to contain west Africa’s first outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus as neighboring Liberia reported its first suspected victims. At least 59 people are known to have died in Guinea’s southern forests. Canada’s health office said the risk of transmission was low as the disease, one of the world’s most virulent, is transmitted to humans from wild animals and between humans by direct contact with blood, feces or sweat, or by sexual contact and the unprotected handling of contaminated corpses.
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