Via linfodrome.com: Côte d’Ivoire - Ebola : The Guinean isn't carrying the disease, according to hr country's authorities. The Google translation:
Côte d'Ivoire has been shaken for a while by the so-called Ebola case that a Guinean, sick, would have transported from her country to Abidjan. The patient was hospitalized but the authorities of her country doubt the results of the medical examinations which made it possible to diagnose the disease on their compatriot.
The French newspaper Lefigaro produced an article in which Rémy Lamah, Guinean Minister of Health exposes his doubts. According to him, since the diagnosis of the young girl by health specialists in Côte d'Ivoire, the patient's case has not worsened. Which means that the young lady would not have been ill with Ebola fever.
In other words, the Guinean Minister of Health believes that one cannot be sick with Ebola and see his state of health improve as is the case with his compatriot hospitalized in Abidjan.
“The Guinean Minister of Health, Rémy Lamah, surprised Thursday by asking Côte d'Ivoire to carry out a new analysis, while the collaboration between the two countries was working perfectly, the World Organization (WHO) even welcoming "remarkable solidarity" on this issue.
"The improvement of the symptoms of the disease and the improvement of the clinical picture in 48 hours raise questions, knowing the classic evolution of the disease", wrote Rémy Lamah, in an official letter consulted by AFP.
Rémy Lamah demands from the Ivorian authorities a new medical examination on the patient to find out if she really suffers from Ebola. In his same letter to AFP, Minister Rémy Lamah deplores the fact that the Guinean medical team sent to Ivorian soil has been prohibited from having access to the patient. According to him, this attitude of the Ivory Coast suggests that the patient does not really suffer from Ebola but that the Ivorians want to believe the opposite.
Questioned by AFP, Serge Eholié spokesman of the Ministry of Health of Côte d'Ivoire is formal. According to him, the young Guinean indeed suffers from Ebola which would have several variants according to him.
“The Guinean authorities doubt the clinical diagnosis, I have no doubts about my analysis, I am an infectious disease specialist and clinician, there is no mistaking the clinical presentation. When we speak of Ebola virus disease, there are several forms", he added, stressing that the patient "has all the symptoms" detected during the epidemic which struck Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone from 2013 to 2016. "The patient has the symptoms found in the Ebola virus, fever, diarrhea, she is vomiting, she is tired”, he declared.
This response from the spokesperson for the Ministry of Health of Côte d'Ivoire does not seem to satisfy the Guinean authorities who require another clinical examination.
"Considering all of the above, Guinea is requesting from the Ivorian authorities, through the WHO, a reconfirmation of this case through the Pasteur Institute in Dakar and if possible another accredited laboratory" demands Rémy Lamah.
