Nigeria Man Tested For Ebola In Hong Kong; Would Be First Case Of The Disease In Asia if tests are positive!

Re-Post from ZERO HEDGE Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/10/2014 09:55 -0400

With increasingly more cases – for now, largely isolated – of suspicious Ebola infections reported out of Africa and around the globe, it was only a matter of time before one of the world’s most densely populated megapolises at 17,024 people per square mile, Hong Kong, raised the alarm as well. Which it did moments ago when Hong Kong’s Centre for Health Protection said on Sunday that a man from Nigeria is being tested for the deadly Ebola virus at Princess Margaret Hospital. If confirmed, it will be the first case of the disease in Asia.

From Xinhua:

The 31-year-old who had been vomiting and suffering from diarrhea — both symptoms of the disease — arrived in Hong Kong on Thursday.

He was sent to the hospital from ChungKing Mansions where he had been staying at a guesthouse.

More than 900 people have died in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The World Health Organization has described the outbreak as a global emergency and the worst in four decades.

Hong Kong’s RTHK adds, that the 31-year-old Nigerian man showed symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea after arriving in Hong Kong on Aug. 7. He was sent to Queen Elizabeth Hospital from ChungKing Mansions in Hong Kong’s Kowloon area, before being transferred to Princess Margaret Hospital.