Germans Quarantined In Ebola Scare...08/06/99

BERLIN (AP) - Security guards with dogs patrolled outside a Berlin hospital Thursday as doctors inside - outfitted in astronaut-like protective clothing - waited to find out if a man quarantined there has the deadly Ebola virus. Doctors fear the 40-year-old German cameraman could have contracted the highly contagious virus or a related disease while on a research trip to West Africa. He was disoriented and suffering from kidney and liver damage, a hospital spokesman said. Meanwhile, the biologist who accompanied the sick man to the Ivory Coast was quarantined in the east German city of Jena. The Bild newspaper reported that the sick man's wife had also been restricted to her home near Frankfurt/Oder and would not be permitted to leave the property. Neither she nor the biologist have symptoms of the illness, the report said.