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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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