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 The patient, who was not identified and was considered low-risk, had
recently traveled to an Ebola-affected country and was taken to the
Medical Center of the Rockies some 50 miles (80 km) north of Denver
on Wednesday evening after falling ill, the Colorado Department of
Public Health and Environment said in a statement.
The department expected test results to be known later on Thursday
morning, the statement said, adding that the person was also being
tested for other conditions.
Further details on the patient were not immediately provided.
At least 10 people are known to have been treated for Ebola in the
United States - four of them diagnosed with the disease on U.S. soil
- during a West African epidemic that has killed more than 10,000
people, mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, over the last
year.
Only two people are known to have contracted the virus in the United
States - both of them nurses who treated an Ebola patient from
Liberia who became sick while visiting Dallas. That man, Thomas
Duncan, died in October.
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(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Kevin
Liffey)
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