[MUST READ & SHARE] Suspected Saudi Ebola sufferer dies of heart attack via @iKanzee_RR

RIYADH (AFP) – A Saudi Arabian who had
travelled to Sierra Leone and had symptoms
similar to those found in Ebola sufferers died
Wednesday of a heart attack, the health
ministry said.
“The patient died of cardiac arrest, despite
efforts by the medical team to resuscitate
him,” the ministry website reported.
It added that the man will be buried in the
Islamic manner, but under precautions laid
down by the world health authorities.
The ministry did not reveal the results of tests
carried out abroad on whether the patent had
been suffering from the Ebola virus.
Since breaking out earlier this year, the
tropical virus has claimed almost 900 lives
and infected more than 1,603 people across
West Africa.
The Saudi case was announced Tuesday by
the health ministry, which said the patient had
been quarantined in hospital in the Red Sea
city of Jeddah.
He was admitted after showing symptoms of
haemorrhagic fever upon his return from Sierra
Leone.
In April, Saudi Arabia announced a ban on
visas for Muslims from the three West African
nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone
wishing to perform the pilgrimage to its
Muslim holy sites.
The World Health Organisation began
Wednesday a two-day emergency meeting in
Geneva on the epidemic, with the UN agency
deciding whether to declare it an international
crisis.
To date, the WHO has not issued global-level
recommendations — such as travel and trade
restrictions — related to the outbreak which
began in Guinea and has spread to Liberia,
Sierra Leone and Nigeria.
But the scale of concern is underlined by the
WHO emergency session itself, since such
consultations are relatively rare.
Ebola causes severe fever and, in the worst
cases, unstoppable bleeding. It is transmitted
through close contact with bodily fluids, and
people who live with or care for patients are
most at risk.