SAQ 1801 – Returned traveller with seizure and public health concern

A 22-year-old female medical student has a brief seizure at home after recently returning from an elective in Malawi. Friends are unsure whether she took her travel medications because of nightmares. In ED she is drowsy and disoriented. Public health initially states there is no Ebola concern.

Name the most likely causative organism.

(Marked out of 1.0)

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Her BSL is normal. List four other immediate blood tests and the expected findings.

(Marked out of 4.0)

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Public health then calls to report five confirmed Ebola cases in the Malawian clinic she attended. Outline the important issues.

(Marked out of 5.0)

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