US citizen being tested for Ebola after visiting Guinea and Sierra Leone

An American man is being quarantined in the African nation of Ghana while researchers there test to see if he’s infected with the deadly Ebola skin-eating virus.

The man, whose name has not yet been released, fell ill this week after traveling through the region, a senior government official in Ghana told Reuters on Monday.

“He is an American and records showed that he had been to Guinea and Sierra Leone in the past few weeks,” a health ministry official told Reuters, where a recent outbreak has killed hundreds of people already in 2014…

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