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Laboratory test results conducted on five patients who fell ill after returning from African countries have come back negative for Ebola, the Health Ministry said
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aboratory test results conducted on five patients who fell ill after returning from African countries have come back negative for Ebola, the Health Ministry said.
'Indonesia has confirmed that the five patients tested negative for the Ebola virus,' said the ministry in a statement made available to The Jakarta Post on Sunday.
The five patients were identified only as MA, 32, from Ghana; NN, 57, from North Sumatra, AN, 31, from Central Java; MS, 29, from East Java; and G, 46, from East Java. All of the patients were male.
Based on World Health Organization (WHO) data, as of Nov. 11, worldwide Ebola cases have reached 14,072, of which 5,151 have resulted in death, or 36.60 percent of the total confirmed cases.
The WHO confirmed that Ebola had been reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), four countries in West Africa, Spain and the US.
In Guinea, the number of Ebola cases has reached 1,919, of which 1,166, or 60.80 percent, have resulted in death. Liberia has recorded 6,878 cases with 2,812 deaths, while in Sierra Leone there have been 5,586 confirmed Ebola cases, of which 1,169, or 21.77 percent, have resulted in death. Mali has reported four Ebola cases, of which three have resulted in death.
