‘Odds are’ patient doesn’t have Ebola, says NY doctor
NEW YORK — A man who visited West Africa last month and is at a New York City hospital being tested for possible Ebola likely doesn’t have it.
A doctor at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan says “odds are” it’s not Ebola. Dr. Jeremy Boal says he hopes for a definitive answer in the next day or two.
The hospital says the patient had a high fever and gastrointestinal symptoms when he went in Monday. It placed him in isolation.
The Ebola virus causes a hemorrhagic fever that has sickened more than 1,600 people, killing nearly 900 mostly in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
A spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says at least three Americans have been tested in the U.S and all tested negative.
Son: Mother’s Ebola should spark push for cure
The attention focused on Missionary Nancy Writebol, one of two known Americans stricken with Ebola, "might help develop a cure and resources to help those who are suffering," Writebol’s 59-year-old son, Jeremy said. "I am sure hopeful for that."
A Liberian government official has confirmed that a medical evacuation team is scheduled to fly Nancy Writebol back to the United States early Tuesday. She will receive treatment at Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital alongside one of her mission partners, Dr. Kent Brantly, who was admitted Saturday.
— Associated Press
