Of Concern: A Possible Ebola Case, Northeast Of London, In Essex | Colchester?

The potentially viral patient recently returned from Africa to the UK. . . and presented overnight with symptoms that do not definitively exclude. . . ebolavirus, of one sort or another.

Tests have already been run today, and the UK authorities are awaiting definitive answers. But s/he will need to consistently test negative for 21 more days (as was previously the outcome in a similar suspected case in Tel Aviv, Israel), before all is clear. And in the mean time, wisely -- the health authorities have closed off the involved hospital.

This is all taking place about an hour and a half's drive (north and east), from the center of London. Here's the latest:

. . .Health officials are investigating a potential Ebola case in Colchester, after a patient with suspected symptoms returned to Britain from Africa, where a strain of the deadly virus is circulating in Uganda.

On Wednesday, part of Colchester Hospital in Essex was closed to new patients amid concerns that a patient with a travel history to Africa was developing early symptoms of Ebola, a deadly hemorrhagic fever.

The Telegraph understands that officials at the UK Health Security Agency are testing the patient for a range of diseases as part of routine infection control protocol that kicks in when suspected cases emerge in travellers. . . .

Those vaccine candidates cannot get tested rapidly enough, in my estimation. Now you know -- holding a good thought, tonight here.

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