Brazil was testing a man who arrived from Guinea for Ebola after preventively closing a public health unit where he first received medical attention, the Health Ministry said Wednesday. The man arrived in Brazil last week and developed high fever with muscle pains two days later, the ministry said in a statement. The man sought medical help at an emergency room in Belo Horizonte, the capital of Brazil's southeastern state of Minas Gerais, the ministry said, adding that the facility no longer is taking patients. The man then was quarantined and will be flown in a military airplane Wednesday to Rio de Janeiro, where the government has established a laboratory to test blood samples for Ebola according to international security protocols. The ministry said medical workers and other patients who had contact with the man are being monitored by health officials. Guinea is one of three West African countries—along with Liberia and Sierra Leone—that have suffered with the most deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus.
