Nigerian woman with Ebola symptom faint in jobcentre Germany

So because Ebola has been imported to Nigeria, every Tom, Dick and Harry that now has fever is a Nigerian? Na wa o! 

A woman suspected to be a Nigerian showing symptoms of Ebola Virus Disease caused a scare after she fainted at a crowded jobcentre in Berlin, Germany yesterday August 19. She was immediately rushed in an ambulance to the Charite Hospital. As many as 600 visitors and staff at the employment office building in Berlin were also stopped from leaving for several hours as emergency services sealed off part of the street. Several people who had been with the woman inside the building in the north-eastern district of Prenzlauer Berg were later taken to hospital for testing.

Berlin fire department spokesman Rolf Erbe said that because the patient came from 'an area affected by a highly contagious disease, we took these precautions.'

'The patient was isolated inside the ambulance. The staff took the appropriate protective measures. An emergency medic, the public health officer, arrived and the necessary precautions were taken.He said the testing in the city's Charite hospital would take some time,’ he said.

A spokesman for the city's health authority said the woman had turned up at the employment bureau with a high fever. Emergency services were called after the woman collapsed.

 Biohazard: Police officers wearing protective masks stand outside the entrance of the jobcentre, where 600 people were kept in quaratine. Several people who had been with the woman were taken to hospital for testing

 Precautions: An ambulance carries a suspected Ebola virus carrier to Charite hospital 

Plague: Job seekers and jobcentre employees wait for permission from police to leave the building after it was put on lockdown by emergency services scared that they might have been infected with Ebola virus

 All clear: Those held in the jobcentre are finally freed after they are judged unlikely to have become infected