By Cecilia Adamou A man suffering from a rare virus often compared to Ebola has been admitted to hospital in Paris. The soldier, who has been confirmed as having a case of Lassa fever, had recently returned from travelling abroad when he fell ill with the virus and is now a patient in the Bégin military hospital in Saint-Mandé, Paris. The rare disease, which exhibits many of the same signs and symptoms of the deadly Ebola virus, including bleeding from the eyes and nose, is commonly spread by rats and is more common in West Africa. Local health officials announced that an “in-depth epidemiolog…
