If states don't want to work together, this is what happens, right?
Meanwhile, the ebola might be closer than we thought:
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Ontario hospital investigating patient with Ebola-like symptoms
A patient at a hospital near Toronto has been placed in isolation as a precautionary measure after he came down with a fever and other flu-like symptoms following a recent trip to a country dealing with the Ebola outbreak.
Dr. Eileen de Villa, an associate medical officer of health with the Region of Peel, said the patient has a history of travelling to Nigeria. He is being kept in isolation at the Brampton Civic Hospital.
She stressed that there has been no diagnosis at this time and health officials are taking precautionary measures, given that the WHO declared Ebola an international health emergency.
Public health officials in Brampton said the patient was admitted to hospital on Friday. They say there are several infectious diseases that could be the cause of the patient's symptoms.
The outbreak has also prompted Nigeria’s president to declare a state of emergency over the virus after the country's health ministry announced two more confirmed cases.
The total confirmed cases in the African country has now risen to nine and includes a nurse and a Liberian-American man who died in Lagos, one of the most populated cities in Nigeria.
So far, the latest Ebola outbreak has killed 961 people, according to the UN. It is considered the largest and longest ever recorded for the disease, which has a death rate of approximately 50 per cent.
The latest outbreak emerged in Guinea in March and has since spread to Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Ebola was first identified in 1976. There have been more than 20 outbreak in central and eastern Africa. The virus causes flu-like symptoms including fever, vomiting, muscle pain and bleeding. It is spread by direct contact of bodily fluids such as blood, urine and saliva.
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