A U.S. embassy worker in Managua, Nicaragua, has been quarantined due to concerns he may have come in contact with the Ebola virus, according to a BBC report.
The embassy confirmed the 51-year-old man had travelled to Liberia but maintain he had not come in contact with Ebola patients and shows no signs of hemorrhagic fever. Additionally, both the U.S. and Nicaragua's health ministry cleared the man to return to the Central American country.
Now, however, the Nicaraguan government has quarantined the man to his home and requested the U.S. state department help transport the man back to the U.S. with a plane equipped to handle a patient with an infectious disease.
A Nicaraguan health ministry official said the strictly preventative measures were being taken because the man had spent time in health facilities where Ebola patients are being treated, according to the report.
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