Group issues correction, BC doctor not quarantined after treating Ebola patients
Posted July 29, 2014 5:03 pm.
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VICTORIA (NEWS1130) – The humanitarian group Samaritan’s Purse now says a BC doctor is not under any kind of quarantine after returning from Liberia, where he was helping to treat Ebola patients.
Samaritan’s Purse had said Dr. Azaria Marthyman voluntarily placed himself under quarantine at home as a precaution upon his return.
Jeff Adams with the group says that information was incorrect and it turns out Marthyman is just taking some time off with his family to decompress from his trip.
Adams says Marthyman is healthy and has no symptoms.
The World Health Organization says the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Africa is the largest ever recorded, killing more than 670 people in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
Two American aid workers, including one of Marthyman’s colleagues at Samaritan’s Purse, American Dr. Kent Brantly, are in hospital in Liberia after contracting the Ebola virus.
