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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 19, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba A10 Winnipeg free May 1995 ebola virus Canada to screen people from Zaire by Dianne Rinehart Canadian press Ottawa the immigration department will Start questioning people from Zaire who enter Canada to ensure they have not come into Contact with the deadly ebola the change in policy comes More than a week after the City of Kakwit in Zaire was quarantined for an out break of the which kills about 90 per cent of its it is the first screening that has been ordered and comes after the detention of two male Zaire ans who entered Canada on sunday and wednesday at Toronto Pearson International both who have not been Are under medical observation for the but health minister Diane mar Leau said yesterday neither of the who were detained Only be cause they claimed refugee is Likely to have the they Are both healthy and pose no health risk because they Are not she health officials say the disease can be spread Only by Contact with bodily fluids of people who Are and the men Are under medical supervision As a precautionary Mea who had been in Kakwit As late As is being detained under the quarantine although he is not being held in isolation at the the other is being held under the immigration act because officials believe he would not appear for a refugee he is being super Vised by medical officials at a medi a Security detention Centre in Tor immigration minister Sergio mar Chi said he would not put a freeze on visas that have been issued to people from Zaire because he has not had any direction from health Canada to do the screening announced yester Day Only provides for the question ing of citizens of not All people who arrive from the rubber Back carpet or no Wax Vinyl flooring t i Cimic Fatsi 50 Archibald off Nairn 2333061 open til 8 weekdays guarding against ebola on Canada two zairian men seeking Belgium embassy in Kinshasa has doctors Check refugee status have been passengers boarding lights to Brussels anyone although neither is with symptoms May not Oil France requiring All passengers trom Zaire to fill in a questionnaire on possible Contact with the arrivals from Zaire Are screened and Given notices warning them of the symptoms and urging them to seek medical care if they become s i i Russia considering a temporary ban on flights to and from Ivory coast banned imports of food and live monkeys from screening airline passengers suspended medical Angola sealed Border with Zaire revoked entry visas issued to angolans resuming from Zaire must be Uganda screening anyone crossing the Border from from Thailand will Stop issuing visas to travellers from expert Calls for preventive not roadblocks and quarantines App sat til 5pm Kanga berber Zaire a Lead ing virologist criticized the Zai rese governments response to the ebola epidemic yester saying that roadblocks and quarantines were a waste of Valu Able time in the race to contain the killer instead of putting More soldiers on the Highway to prevent stricken people from More Doc tors and equipment should be sent to the diseases said Jeanjacques Muy Embe who helped identify the ebola virus 19 years the quarantine and the Road blocks Are neither necessary nor of and More attention should be turned to Muy Embe information would slow the re mors that have sent people who fear they have the disease into Muy Embe by con create conditions Ripe for a new Muy Embe said people trying to reach Kinshasa from the City of where the epidemic broke have been camped out at the final Roadblock for several Days with Little food or water Fertile ground for the anyone with enough Money can bribe their Way through the Muy Embe told a news conference in and people sick with ebola were generally too disoriented and weak to travel Long making the quarantine largely he his comments were transmit Ted by radio to 400 Kilometres so no ebola cases have been diagnosed in the capital of about six million in at least 114 people have been infected and five new cases Are appearing Muy Embe so 79 people have he urged the government to begin a radio and television Campaign to explain How the virus is transmitted through body fluids and the traditional washing of infected corpses and to encourage people with symptoms to report to health a health experts say fear of the Dis ease could fuel its spread because afraid of going to the Kakwit Hospital where Many people have Are staying Home and spread ing the Winnipeg free press commercial print division get the Power of our printing presses working for retail flyers catalogues newspapers Coupon books tabloids magazines broadsheets newsletters we also offer the following services design repress creative color scanning and color distribution distribution to selected areas or to full Market for professional assistance in planning your next publication Call fax 6977220 6971 Spring special 42 one 20 Leaf 4 Aro sick1 chairs w to k j Garden Centre is mow open for the season 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