Suspected Ebola cases under scrutiny in Ghana: authority

Health authority in Ghana said it is awaiting test results of four new suspected Ebola cases in the country.

The first is a Burkina Faso national with nose bleeding and fever who was rushed across boarder to the northeastern Bawku town, and died later.

Fears are that he may have had close contact with many Ghanaian port and medical officials.

The body had since been sent back to Burkina Faso, but blood samples are being tested to ascertain the ailment.

The other three being quarantined at the Nsawam government hospital near the capital. Official sources said one of them was showing symptoms of the deadly ebola virus disease. Endi