The patient, whose identity was not disclosed, is being treated in a
"specially prepared area within the hospital," Mass General said,
noted that the diagnosis has not yet been confirmed.
The worst outbreak of Ebola on record has killed more than 6,000
people, with the vast majority of cases in the West African nations
of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
U.S. health officials on Tuesday designated 35 hospitals around the
nation as Ebola treatment centers; none were located in
Massachusetts.
(Reporting by Scott Malone; Editing by Eric Walsh)
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