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Yale Hospital Monitoring Researcher with Ebola-Like Symptoms

| October 16, 2014 Comment

Yale Hospital Monitoring Researcher with Ebola-Like Symptoms – A patient showing Ebola-like symptoms was put under evaluation at Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut late on Wednesday.

According to reports, the patient is a student researcher who had recently traveled to Liberia. The hospital confirmed the news on Thursday morning in a statement, “We have not confirmed or ruled out any diagnosis at this point.”

Ebola scares have become common in the United States in recent weeks, but many have turned out to be false alarms. The three cases in Dallas have been the only confirmed Ebola diagnoses in the country. However, the New Haven case is drawing attention because two Yale health researchers had recently returned from Liberia and were not in isolation.

According to the Yale Daily News, the researchers had been in Liberia working on a computer model of the spread of Ebola, and did not come into contact with anyone with Ebola while there. They had initially agreed to quarantine themselves for 21 days but after consulting with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the university determined that it was not necessary.

Information about the patients’ identity and current condition has not been released.

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