A patient at a Westchester hospital who exhibited Ebola-like symptoms after returning from a trip to West Africa is no longer being monitored for the deadly virus.
Lohud.com reports that officials at St. Joseph's Medical Center concluded that there was no threat of Ebola, a little more than 24 hours after the patient was admitted to the hospital and put in isolation with symptoms consistent with the disease.
""There's no suspected case of Ebola, and the Department of Health is not monitoring a case for Ebola," a spokesman for the Yonkers hospital told the news outlet.
It's not clear what illness had stricken the patient. The most common diagnosis in travelers with fever who have recently returned from Ebola-affected countries has been malaria, the health department said.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, portions of Sierra Leone and Guinea still have cases of Ebola, while Liberia has been declared Ebola-free. It's unclear whether the patient had traveled from one of the Ebola-stricken countries.
Despite sporadic scares of possible Ebola cases in the tri-state since last year, only one person has been diagnosed with the potentially deadly virus in the tri-state: Dr. Craig Spencer of Hamilton Heights, Manhattan.
Spencer was successfully treated at Bellevue Hospital in early November after returning from Guinea while working with Doctors Without Borders.
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