A Japanese man who was from Tokyo who recently returned from a trip to Liberia was reported to have an exothermic reaction which was a common symptom of the Ebola virus. Japanese press reported that this man will be going to hospitals to go through a series of tests to check if he really was contaminated by the epidemic.
South Korea’s NewsIs reported that this Japanese citizen was believed to have returned to Tokyo on the 4th of November and 3 days later on the 7th began to show some series signs of fever. They reported that he had been in Liberia in West Africa for over 3 weeks. However, he told the press that he had never come into any contact with Ebola patients during his trip.
Nevertheless, the man is scheduled to be hospitalized at a local hospital in Tokyo and will soon be transferred to Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Disease (NIID) for a number of blood tests.
This is not the first time that Japan could have also fallen victim to the Ebola virus. On the 27th of October, another Japanese citizen who had come back from a trip to West Africa was also examined by the NIID, but the results came out negative.
The whole world is still under constant fear and anxiety regarding the global epidemic. Although the U.S. has seen 2 of its Ebola patients fully healed from the disease, the situation in Liberia and other countries of West Africa are still witnessing a staggering amount of patients every day.
Christopher Dye, the Director of Strategy in the Office of the Director General at the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the actual number of victims who have died from the Ebola could be higher by 5,000 than official WHO records. According to Yonhap News, Dye went as far as to estimate that it could even be double the official count. If these numbers are correct, the world has already seen up to 10,000 be killed from this global epidemic. Dye explained that the numbers could be higher because the people of countries like Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leon bury their dead before WHO officials could take them into account.
At the same time, according to AP, experts estimated that the war on Ebola may end by next year with the number of countries and international organizations that are working to keep the virus from spreading any further.
