Deadly Ebola Virus; Man with Ebola Virus is rushed to heavily armed quarantine establishment in Istanbul, Turkey

A man with an Ebola virus was hospitalized in a hospital in İstanbul on Wednesday night, prompting hospital officials to empty part of the building

A man, whose nationality or identity remains confidential, was detected to be carrying the Ebola virus during a health screening before he entered Turkey at İstanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen Airport on Wednesday. He was immediately isolated and brought to Marmara University Education and Research Hospital at Pendik. Current patients were transferred to other hospitals while relatives of the patients were given protective masks and distanced away from the hospital. Relatives of some of the patients protested the hospital administration for cutting their treatment short.

The hospital also refused to accept additional patients throughout the night. The patient was going to spend the night at the hospital and he will be transferred to Süreyyapaşa Breast Diseases Education and Research Hospital on Thursday.