The London Health Sciences Centre said late Tuesday night that two patients had been admitted to the southwestern Ontario city's Victoria Hospital with Ebola-like symptoms.
The patients have been tested to see if they have the virus, and the results are expected within 24 to 48 hours, according to Dan Flaherty, the communications manager at the Middlesex-London Health Unit.
Dr. Chris Mackie, the medical officer of health for London, said the two patients are family members from the Kitchener-Waterloo area.
"They're both very low risk at this point, two patients from the same family who came to Canada recently and have been closely monitored ever since," said Mackie. "They started to have very low-level symptoms that may or may not be compatible with Ebola, but out of an abundance of caution, they've been transferred to LHSC from outside of the region."
The two patients were admitted around 9:45 p.m. ET on Tuesday, and placed into isolation in a negative pressure room according to an online release from the hospital.
The patients' symptoms were not clear, but Mackie said they were "low level" and appear to have resolved, so it's unlikely the patients have the virus.
According to Mackie, the two patients were in Guinea, though he did not say how recently.
"These are people who came to Canada through a federal refugee relocation program, which is actually a very good thing, because it means that they're carefully monitored, they're screened," Mackie told Ontario Morning host Wei Chen early Wednesday. "They have all resources supporting them to be healthy both before they leave their country of origin and also after they arrive."
Because the patients were recent arrivals from West Africa, they were monitored by the Region of Waterloo Public Health unit as part of a local-provincial-federal process to monitor potential Ebola cases, though the public health unit says the individuals are "very low risk."
According to the Region of Waterloo, the patients began to show "minor symptoms of illness" and were transported by Waterloo Region Paramedic Services to the London hospital for assessment. The public health unit says all infection protocols were followed and there's no risk to the public or staff.
The hospital said in a tweet that there was "no impact to patient and visitor activity" as a result of the admissions.
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According to Mackie, there's no risk to the public in London, and the risk to the public in Kitchener-Waterloo is "exceedingly low."
The LHSC is one of 10 designated hospitals in Ontario that are set up to handle potential Ebola cases.
There have been no confirmed cases of Ebola in Canada.
In previous cases, including at least 10 in Ontario, patient samples were sent to the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg for testing.
The World Health Organization said earlier this week that there have been 22,828 cases and 9,152 deaths as a result of the Ebola outbreak, which has been heavily concentrated in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
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