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A 48-year-old British Nigerian woman is feared to have died of the deadly ebola virus in Austria. The woman’s body was found at her apartment in Vomp, in the Tyrol, at the weekend after she returned from a trip to Nigeria.
Mirror, UK reports that blood, hair and urine samples have been sent to a tropical disease centre in Hamburg for urgent tests. The woman, who has a British passport, had travelled from Nigeria to Germany where she then flew back to her home in Vomp. Her body was discovered in her flat on Saturday.
Emergency Measures: Health officials have been tackling ebola outbreaks in places like Liberia, pictured, but the British woman died in Austria
Austrian officials confirmed today they implemented emergency measures following the suggestion that she might have died from the ebola virus.
Results from the Centre for Tropical Diseases in the northern Germany city of Hamburg are expected sometime today.
The doctor who attended the scene where the body was found gave the cause of death as a viral infection.
Police confirmed that they had already ruled out violent crime for her death.
They were alerted to the fact that there might be a problem when a relative had called them to say they could not contact the woman.
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