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Hong Kong ramps up health checks for travellers from Africa after Ebola outbreak

South China Morning Post · · 132 words · By Ng Kang-chung
International Travel Regulation Public Health Safety
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4 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Hong Kong ramps up health checks for travellers from Africa after Ebola outbreak”
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Web search results explicitly state that Hong Kong's airport health checks have been stepped up, requiring passengers from Ebola-hit countries or those who visited affected areas in the last 21 days to fill in health questionnaires.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ebola Syndrome (伊波拉病毒) is a 1996 Hong Kong Category III exploitation film directed by Herman Yau and starring Anthony Wong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_Syndrome
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Hong Kong flu, also known as the 1968 flu pandemic, was an influenza pandemic that occurred between 1968 and 1970 and which killed between one and four million people globally. It is among the dea…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_flu
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2013–2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease, centered in West Africa, was the most widespread outbreak of the disease in history. It caused major loss of life and socioeconomic disruption in the reg…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_African_Ebola_epidemic
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“WHO declaring outbreak of deadly disease on continent a ‘public health emergency of international concern’”
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Three independent web search results confirm that the WHO declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda a 'public health emergency of international concern'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ebola, also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), is a zoonotic viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates, caused by four of the six known ebolaviruses. Symp…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Kivu Ebola epidemic was an outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) mainly in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and in other parts of Central Africa, from 2018 to 2020. Between 1 August…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kivu_Ebola_epidemic
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This list of Ebola outbreaks records the known occurrences of Ebola virus disease, a highly infectious and acutely lethal viral disease that has afflicted humans and animals primarily in equatorial Af…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ebola_outbreaks
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“no confirmed cases of Ebola have ever been recorded in Hong Kong”
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While the provided evidence mentions Ebola cases in the DRC and Uganda, and mentions a Hong Kong film called 'Ebola Syndrome', there is no specific evidence in the provided text that explicitly confirms or denies whether a real-life case of Ebola has ever been recorded in Hong Kong.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The cinema of Hong Kong is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese-language cinema, alongside the cinema of China and the cinema of Taiwan. As a former Crown colony, Hong Kong had a g…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Hong_Kong
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ebola Syndrome (伊波拉病毒) is a 1996 Hong Kong Category III exploitation film directed by Herman Yau and starring Anthony Wong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_Syndrome
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a non-exhaustive list of Category III films produced in Hong Kong. According to the Hong Kong motion picture rating system introduced in 1988, the restriction applicable to Category I…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hong_Kong_Category_III…
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“outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighbouring Uganda”
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Multiple sources, including web search results and Wikipedia, confirm outbreaks of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, specifically mentioning the Bundibugyo virus and the PHEIC declaration for both countries.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In August–November 1976, an outbreak of Ebola virus disease occurred in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). The first recorded case was from Yambuku, a small village in Mongala District,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Zaire_Ebola_virus_outbrea…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola virus outbreaks are instances where an outbreak of the Ebola virus has occurred in parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. These include: 2018 É…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Democratic_Republic_of_th…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Ebola River ( or ), also commonly known by its Ngbandi name Legbala, is the headstream of the Mongala River, a tributary of the Congo River, in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is ro…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_River
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