Rome, 25 May (LaPresse) – The two suspected cases of Ebola being monitored at the Sacco Hospital in Milan are aid workers, a man and a woman, who have undergone the necessary tests. Guido Bertolaso, Welfare Councillor for the Lombardy Region, provided further details on the two possible infections in the Como area during a press conference. Together with five other compatriots, the two “had returned from an area of Uganda not far from the border with Congo and Rwanda. They are aid workers who spent three months providing assistance to populations living in conditions far more difficult and problematic than our own,” explained Bertolaso. Upon their return to Italy, during the night the two aid workers “developed symptoms such as high fever, vomiting, diarrhoea and mild neurological symptoms. The most likely cause,” concluded the Lombardy councillor, “is malaria: the woman’s daughter had contracted malaria during her stay in Uganda.”
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