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Possible Ebola case in Canada: Health official

File photo: International Red Cross workers spraying disinfectant around the Intensive Care room at Kelle hospital, northwestern Congo, where an Ebola fever infected patient lies. AFP Photo
File photo: International Red Cross workers spraying disinfectant around the Intensive Care room at Kelle hospital, northwestern Congo, where an Ebola fever infected patient lies. AFP Photo

A person returning to Canada from western Africa has been hospitalized after displaying symptoms consistent with those of the Ebola virus that has killed 59 people in Guinea, a health official said Monday.

"All we know at this point is that we have a person who is critically ill who travelled from a country where these diseases occur," Denise Werker, joint director of health in Saskatchewan province in western Canada, told reporters.

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