Condition of Ebola suspect improves

IMPHAL, Oct 6: The health condition of the Japanese national who had been quarantined at the Isolation ward of JNIMS after showing Ebola like symptoms, showing signs of improvement. Hospital

IMPHAL, Oct 6: The health condition of the Japanese national who had been quarantined at the Isolation ward of JNIMS after showing Ebola like symptoms, showing signs of improvement.

Hospital authority said that the body temperature of the patient dropped by few degree, the main reason for which she was kept isolated.

However, it is learnt that taking extreme precaution the doctors continue to conduct test on her.

X-ray, blood test (culture), urine test was conducted on her today. The patient today requested the doctors to discharge her however doctors declined her request as the result of the test on the blood samples of the patient sent to the National Institute of Virology, Pune, is yet to be received.

Kawakubo Yuko, 27, was officially admitted at JNIMS following an intense fever with temperature soaring over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

She left home in the month of June and travelled across five nations and entered into Manipur via Myanmar to visit Nagaland.

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