Watch above: a man remains in hospital with unknown fever after testing negative for Ebola
SASKATOON – A Saskatoon man remains in isolation with a fever at St. Paul’s Hospital following a recent trip to west Africa for work.
Rod Ogilvie, president and CEO of Geological Services in Saskatoon, has been placed in a negative pressure room after a trip to Liberia.
The World Health Organization (WHO) revealed the engineer tested negative for Ebola, Lassa, Marburg and Crimean Congo Virus.
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Longtime friend and colleague George Sharpe says Ogilvie had gone to Liberia in late February on a work assignment.
Ogilvie returned in mid-March before falling ill.
He says Ogilvie was always conscientious about taking his malaria pills, getting vaccinated and taking the necessary precautions to stay healthy while on the job.
Ogilvie has been working in his field for about four decades.
Saskatchewan’s chief medical health officer Denise Werker told reporters on Tuesday the public has nothing to fear.
She says this is a “fever of unknown origin” and public health does not often hear about these cases.
Meanwhile, tests are being conducted to determine what illness Ogilvie is suffering from.
Sharpe went through his own bout of Dengue Fever and survived.
He now hopes his friend will do the same and be able to go on living his life.
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