{"id":21432,"date":"2014-08-10T18:14:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T10:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=21432"},"modified":"2014-08-10T17:16:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T09:16:19","slug":"test-results-from-patient-with-ebola-like-symptoms-expected-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/10\/test-results-from-patient-with-ebola-like-symptoms-expected-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Test results from patient with Ebola-like symptoms expected Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/shutterstock_187963904.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20624\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/shutterstock_187963904.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_187963904\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/shutterstock_187963904.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/shutterstock_187963904-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/shutterstock_187963904-600x360.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BRAMPTON, Ont.\u2014Public health officials in Ontario say they expect to have test results before Monday concerning a patient with flu-like symptoms that are similar to those of the Ebola virus.<\/p>\n<p>The patient has been placed in isolation in a hospital in Brampton, near Toronto, but officials say it\u2019s strictly a precaution.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say they took the step because the patient recently returned from Nigeria, one of the West African nations recently affected by an outbreak of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>However they also point out the symptoms of Ebola are also similar to many more common diseases, such as malaria or the flu.<\/p>\n<p>While health officials say they are on \u201cheightened alert\u201d, they say Ebola poses a low risk to Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>The samples have been sent to the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, the only facility in Canada set up to handle such work.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization says the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has claimed at least 960 lives.<\/p>\n<p>Transmission of Ebola from person to person is largely through direct contact with blood and body fluids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRAMPTON, Ont.\u2014Public health officials in Ontario say they expect to have test results before Monday concerning a patient with flu-like &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":20624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}