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Posted: May 26, 2015 5:17 PM CDT
Updated: May 26, 2015 5:17 PM CDT
By MYFOX NEW YORK STAFF
NEW YORK (MYFOXNY) -
A sick patient at a hospital in Yonkers, New York, is being evaluated for possible Ebola infection, authorities said.
The person who had visited a country on the Ebola watch list came into St. Joseph's Medical Center Tuesday with a fever, according to a hospital spokesman. The patient was tested for the virus, and the hospital went into "precautionary mode."
"The Westchester County Department of Health is working with the hospital and treating physician to evaluate a patient with fever who recently traveled to an Ebola-affected country," Dr. Sherlita Amler, the county health commissioner, said in a statement...
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The state Department of Health is running tests to determine what the patient may be stricken with, including testing for Ebola, Civitello said.
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Civitello said early Wednesday afternoon that although the hospital had hoped to get test results from the state the night before it was still awaiting word on the man's diagnosis.
"It's a little tense and anxious," he said of the wait, adding the hospital was hoping to get the test results back by the end of the day.
If the patient did test positive for Ebola, Civitello said, "we would coordinate with the Department of Health as to where the patient would go."
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A Yonkers hospital patient is no longer being monitored for Ebola, a hospital spokesman said.
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"There's no suspected case of Ebola, and the Department of Health is not monitoring a case for Ebola," Dean Civitello, a spokesman for the Yonkers hospital, said on Wednesday afternoon.
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