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Turtle death ANOTHER loggerhead turtle was found dead on the Torrevieja coastline at the weekend. It was in a better condition than the one found in July and transferred to Valencia for postmortem examination.
CV-940 crash A 62-YEAR-OLD woman was badly injured on the CV-940 near San Miguel in a collision involving two vehicles. She was taken to Torrevieja Hospital.
Top tapas CARLOS GARCIA has won the second edition of ‘De tapas por la Mata’. He nabbed the title from the 24 venues which took part.
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False alarm activates Alicante Ebola protocols
A YOUNG Nigerian man who was admitted to Alicante’s San Juan Hospital suspected of suffering from the deadly Ebola virus has been given the all-clear. He was being cared for in an isolation unit after showing signs of the virus including high fever, physical discomfort, vomiting and bleeding, but doctors now believe he may just be suffering from a throat infection. The man was admitted to a general hospital and allegedly kept waiting for six hours before being transferred to San Juan when his symptoms were recognised as being similar to those of Ebola victims. The decision to raise the alarm and start isolation protocols was taken when it became clear that the patient had travelled through an Ebola-affected zone within the last month. Earlier this month San Juan was assigned by the national government to treat Ebola cases in Alicante Province.
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Samples taken from the young man were sent to the Spanish National Microbiology Centre near Madrid for analysis, and have come back as negative. There will be no further testing as it cannot be proved that the patient has come into contact with anyone infected with the virus. This is the second time in the last few months that a quarantine protocol
has come into effect in the Valencia Region for a possible case of the Ebola virus. On June 23 a Guinean citizen was placed in isolation after arriving on a flight from Morocco and displaying symptoms similar to the virus, but this case also proved to be negative. The Nigerian man remains in hospital under observation.