(Updates previous).
An Italian Ebola scare ended
Monday when Umberto I Hospital doctors found that a young Somali
man who fainted at an immigration office was an epileptic.
The man fell ill while queuing to get his asylum permit
extended at a Rome police office.
"He had convulsions, a high fever and blood was flowing
from his nose as he fell suddenly to the ground," the head of
the Police officers' union SIULP Saturno Carbone, quoted
colleagues working at the immigration office of Rome's police
headquarters saying.
"The man was taken ill at the counter of the Refugee room
and the emergency number 118 was called immediately".
"Health workers who arrived at the scene kept their
distance from the foreigner once they understood his symptoms
while the police cordoned off the area".
The Somali man was found to be suffering only from
epilepsy after he was rushed to the Umberto I hospital, one of
three hospitals, together with the Spallanzani and the Gemelli
polyclinic, equipped to treat infectious diseases in the Eternal
City.
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