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LAST UPDATE | 4 Jan 2019
A PATIENT IN Sweden who was admitted to hospital with a suspected case of Ebola, was found not to be suffering from the highly infectious and potentially fatal disease, health care officials said this evening.
“The young man… who had symptoms… is not suffering from Ebola. That is what the result of tests shows,” the health authorities in Uppsala, about 70 kilometres north of Stockholm, said in a statement.
“The patient came in this morning. He was throwing up blood and had bloody stools,” which can be a symptom of Ebola, Mikael Kohler, a medical director for Uppsala Region, told AFP earlier.
The young man, whose identity has not been released, lives in Sweden and had returned from a trip to Burundi three weeks ago but was not known to have visited any Ebola-contaminated area, Kohler said.
The symptoms first appeared this morning.
After the patient was admitted to hospital, the emergency room of that hospital was closed, and staff who came in contact with the patient were being cared for, authorities said earlier.
Ebola is one of the world’s most notorious diseases, being both highly infectious and extremely lethal.
It is caused by a virus that has a natural reservoir in the bat, which does not itself fall ill, but can pass the microbe on to humans who hunt it for “bushmeat”.
The virus is handed on by contact with bodily fluids – touching a sick or dead person is a well-known source of infection.
Following an incubation period of between two and 21 days, Ebola develops into a high fever, weakness, intense muscle and joint pain, headaches and a sore throat.
That is often followed by vomiting and diarrhoea, skin eruptions, kidney and liver failure, and internal and external bleeding.
The worst-ever Ebola outbreak started in December 2013 in southern Guinea before spreading to two neighbouring west African countries, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
That outbreak killed more than 11,300 people out of nearly 29,000 registered cases, according to WHO estimates, although the real figure is thought to be significantly higher.
An Ebola outbreak ravaging eastern areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo has claimed several hundred lives.
It is the 10th such outbreak in the Congo since the disease was first detected there in 1976.
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All offset against increased Bord Gais,Eircom,transport,home and health insurance
This cost of living study takes all of those into account. Unless Mercer are completely incompetent.
Are they serious? Food, booze, energy, mortgages etc, all still bloody expensive!
Food is not actually that expensive, one trip to Lidl per week fills my cupboard for under €30. That’s food, drink, lunches, dinners, the lot. As for booze, it’s a luxury (which I quite enjoy), but as a luxury the price depends on supply and demand.
And tax….
The price of a luxury depends on supply, demand and tax folks…
Would you not shop in an Irish supermarket?? I get that Lidl and Aldi are great if you have a big family and that they employ Irish staff, but most of what they sell are imports and the profits go back to their German headquarters.
Do a weekly shop in Superquinn and you’ll find it sore when you sit down for a couple of days.
Just aswell we have Dunnes and Supervalue so!
Ann, you obviously don’t realize that Lidl and Aldi actually source far more products in Ireland than many competitors such as Tesco and Dunnes. Much of the fresh produce is sourced from Irish farms, and packaged meats, sausages etc are often of Irish origin.
Not anywhere near where I live Ann, I’m afraid.
A pint is still obscenely expensive.
That’s the only thing that matters.
paying 8 euros for a pint of plain here in sweden : (
Precisely, it’s a key economic indicator.
It reflects the price of grain (which ref;ects high prices for all other foods) and the levels of taxation.
Probably reflective of the drop in wages, jobs etc while the same time the rise in taxation and charges. I bet its still as expensive live in for the people who work, live and survive in
Increases in taxes and charges would increase the cost of living, so I’m not exactly sure what you are trying to say.
Good its an overpriced dump anywya
Typical ignorant culchie comment.
What a parochial, low-life comment.
Those who gave the thumbs down were annoyed at not knowing what parochial means!
From the link:
Two main factors determine a city’s position in Mercer’s Cost of Living rankings:
the relative strength of the relevant currency against the US dollar in the 12 months between ranking (March 2011 to March 2012 in this case); and
price movements over the 12 month-period compared to those in New York City as the base.
So the weakening of the euro in relation to the dollar is a contributing factor as well.
In fact, again according to the link “Most European cities drop in the ranking” except for Geneva in Switzerland which is non Euro. Since this is a comparative study it doesn’t really show if the cost of living has fallen in Ireland, only that it has fallen in comparison to other places. This while the Dublin Chamber of Commerce are right in saying that the city is gaining competitiveness, it is not actually because of anything we have done.
So rather then the headline saying that the cost of living has fallen in Dublin, it should really say that the cost of visiting Dublin has fallen if you are coming from outside the Eurozone. Which is good in itself, but means little to those of us who do not make our living from tourist related activities.
That is exactly the point I was making earlier on which seems to have gone over the heads of some of the readers
I found temple bar very expensive on little womens xmas, me and the girls could barely pay for the taxi
It’s where all the tourists and their wallets go. What did you expect?
And where they get mugged by the jackines
This is a US ex-patriate focused survey. It uses New York and the US dollar as a base. New York is 33rd on this list. If you were a resident of New York now and had to move to Dublin, which is #72, you would find that the overall cost of living is lower in Dublin than it is in New York, whereas if you moved to Tokyo you would feel the pain.
Maybe if you are visiting. Energy, communications and insurance are robbery.
That can’t be right! I haven’t been this broke since I was 16!
Moscow is not a city in Europe -,-
it is, you know
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