Swedish hospital investigating possible case of Ebola: media

A hospital in the Swedish capital is investigating a possible case of Ebola, Swedish media reported on Sunday. A man who recently traveled to a “risk area” for the virus was taken to Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm suffering from a fever and is being treated in an isolation unit, the reports said. More than 1,500 people have died in an Ebola outbreak in West Africa since March. “The virus isn’t airborne and can only be spread between people through direct contact with blood and other body fluids,” daily Svenska Dagbladet wrote, quoting a statement by the Stockholm County Council.
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Health workers death toll mounts in W.Africa as Ebola spreads

The front view of the Samstel Clinic and Maternity Centre owned by Dr Ikyke Samuel Enuemo, who died of the Ebola virus, in Port Harcout, August 29, 2014Nigeria on Sunday confirmed a fresh case of Ebola in a doctor whose husband died from the virus, adding to a growing list of healthcare workers in west Africa hit by the epidemic. The woman's husband was also a doctor who died in the city of Port Harcourt on August 22 after treating a patient that had contact with the Liberian man who brought the virus to Nigeria in late July. She was in stable condition at an isolation unit in the financial capital, Lagos, said Sampson Parker, the health commissioner of Rivers State, of which Port Harcourt is the capital. Nigeria's medics have paid a heavy price in the outbreak: of the six people who have died from the disease in Africa's most populous nation, two have been doctors and two others nurses.



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Four members of suburban Chicago family found shot to death

By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) – Four members of a suburban Chicago family were found shot dead in their home, with one death ruled a suicide and the rest homicides, police and coroner officials said on Sunday. Local media said the victims were an elderly couple and their two severely disabled adult children. Police said they were investigating the incident in Elmhurst, about 18 miles west of Chicago, but there was no threat or danger to others. The four bodies were discovered Saturday evening after Elmhurst police went to the home for a “well being check,” police said.
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