Fever, weakness, headache, nausea, vomiting. Symptoms that might indicate a common flu. However, if these symptoms are extended to include information that the patient has been in Liberia in Africa, paramedics must also consider a catastrophic scenario - a bleeding ebol fever. All components of the Integrated Rescue System of the Olomouc Region had to cope with suspicion of one of the most dangerous infections during yesterday's exercise at the Faculty Hospital in Olomouc. Some of the urgent intake was closed in the evening, but it was practiced in full operation and real patients were treated as usual.

The two-hour test, attended by about one hundred medical workers, firefighters, hygienists and police officers, was to examine the interconnection of the rescue system and lay down the rules that should be followed by all units

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