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Man with Ebola like symptoms dies in Pakistan

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IANS Islamabad

A man who was hospitalised with Ebola like symptoms has died, a media report said Tuesday.

Zulfiqar Ahmed, 40, who returned from Togo a week ago, died Monday, Dawn online reported. He was admitted to a hospital at Chiniot town in Punjab.

The patient's blood samples have been sent to National Institute of Health (NIH) in Islamabad for laboratory tests and it will take at least two weeks for the test results to arrive, the report added.

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First Published: Nov 25 2014 | 10:40 AM IST

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