Two adult patients were first moved over the weekend and another two pediatric patients will be moved Monday, according to a joint statement from NYU Langone and Bellevue. Oct. 27, 2014 4:44 p.m. ET
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The child, 5, had a high fever when an Emergency Medical Service ambulance crew rushed him from his Bronx home to Bellevue Hospital about 9 p.m. Sunday. A source said the boy had recently been in Guinea, West Africa, but had not displayed any symptoms after going through a check at Kennedy Airport on Saturday. At Public School 195-196, where the boy attends kindergarten, city Department of Health workers were passing out 'Understanding Ebola' leaflets to assuage fears of students and their parents.Mayor de Blasio urged calm and said the boy was at Bellevue Hospital with his mother, who sources said is 40.
“The child at first did not appear to have any symptoms,” the mayor said. “The fact that the mother shows no symptoms at all is a very encouraging sign.”
The boy had been visiting relatives in Guinea for a month with his family and returned home on Moroccan Airlines early Saturday, landing at Kennedy Airport, sources said.
When he was rushed to Bellevue on Sunday evening, he had a temperature of 102.7 degrees and bloodshot eyes, the sources said. The boy is in an isolation ward at Bellevue Hospital — the epicenter of the city’s response to the Ebola crisis.
Officials have also quarantined the boy’s 52-year-old father, a sister, who is 15, and two brothers, ages 13 and 2, sources said.
“As a further precaution,” a team of so-called “disease detectives” are now tracing all of the young boy’s contacts “to identify anyone who may be at potential risk,” an official said.
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I wonder if the parents did not cancel their trip to West Africa because they would forfeit some of their long planned investment on the deal.
If so, this needs to be addressed now!
Just because the US govt. doesn't prevent unnecessary travel to the hot zone, SHOULD NOT INADVERTENTLY imply the "all clear" for travel anywhere near the Ebola hot zone to the low information traveler/voter. This IS a matter of life or death!