WASHINGTON, October 18 (RIA Novosti) - A woman was transported to a Virginia hospital after showing potential signs of Ebola outside of the Pentagon, an Arlington County Police Department spokesman, Dustin Sternback confirmed with RIA Novosti.
Pentagon Police officers found the woman in the Pentagon South Parking Lot ill and vomiting. She told authorities that she had recently visited West Africa, said the press release from the Arlington County Police Department.
The Arlington, Virginia County Fire Department (ACFD) responded to the incident immediately with a HazMat response team and emergency and medical aid.
ACFD then transported the woman to the Fairfax, Virginia Inova Hospital and Arlington County has activated its Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and Join Information Center (JIC) to further manage the incident.
The corridor 2 entrance to the Pentagon has been closed off and vehicles and pedestrian activity around the Pentagon South Parking lot has been restricted until further notice.
The current Ebola epidemic, one of the current global security issues, started in southern Guinea at the end of 2013 and later spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and Senegal, with several Ebola cases having been reported outside of West Africa.
According to the latest figures, released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on October 17, the current outbreak has claimed the lives of 4,555 people, with a total number of 9,216 confirmed, probable and suspected Ebola cases.
