Report: U.S. Citizen Tested for Ebola in Ghana

A U.S. citizen who traveled in regions of West Africa in the grip of an ebola virus outbreak is being tested for the disease in Ghana.

“He is an American and records showed that he had been to Guinea and Sierra Leone in the past few weeks,” a senior health ministry official told Reuters in an interview. The patient is reportedly quarantined in a clinic in the capital Accra and test results, which should be available later on Monday, are being examined at the Noguchi Memorial Institute of Medical Research.

According to Reuters, the U.S. embassy in Ghana has been informed of the case and is working to confirm it.

The ebola outbreak, which started in Guinea, has been declared “out of control” by the health group Doctors Without Borders, which is treating patients in Western Africa. Ebola causes fevers, vomiting, diarrhea and death, and has spread from Guinea to Sierra Leone and Liberia.

[Reuters]