A child who had recently been in the Ebola-affected nation of Guinea took ill in New York City on Sunday night and is being isolated at a hospital, health officials said Monday.
The child was being tested for Ebola, and results were expected by the afternoon, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said in a statement.
The patient was taken to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan and did not have a fever when first examined there but developed one around 7 a.m., the department said.
The department said that it is tracing the child's contacts to identify anyone who might be at risk of the disease. Emergency personnel were wearing personal protective equipment when transporting the patient to the hospital, it said.
Before a doctor who had been treating patients in Guinea became sick with Ebola last week, dozens of patients in New York City had been tested and cleared.
The doctor's case spurred the governors of New York and New Jersey to institute a strict quarantine of medical workers who had been treating patients in Ebola-affected nations.
But New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo outlined rules Sunday that appeared less onerous than New Jersey's quarantine of a returned health worker who objected to her quarantine.
On Monday morning, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said the worker would be released from hospital quarantine after testing negative.
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7:32 a.m.: This post has been updated to add details from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's statement.
This post was originally published at 7:13 a.m.
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