The HSE have confirmed that there are currently “no confirmed, or suspected, cases of Ebola in Ireland.”
The organisation was forced to deny the claims after reports circulated this morning that there was a suspected case of Ebola transferring to the Mater Hospital in Dublin. An isolated unit was apparently being sealed with negative pressure to stop the disease from spreading through the hospital.
The organisation confirmed the news to the Irish Independent. “There are no confirmed, or suspected, cases of Ebola in Ireland,” a HSE spokeswoman said.
She explained: “The National Isolation Unit in the Mater Hospital is used for patients with a variety of infectious diseases. Negative pressure is a feature of this specialist facility, as part of normal infection control procedures.”
To date, there have been 1,069 deaths from the virus with the current outbreak beginning in February of this year in Guinea. The World Health Organisation has declared that they “vastly underestimated” the outbreak and expect it to continue for some time.
The organisation is currently warning that Kenya is a “high-risk” country for the spread of the virus which could move into East Africa.
Just a few days ago, Spain buried Europe’s first Ebola victim, a priest who had been working in a Monrovia hospital treating Ebola patients.
