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Child being observed at Chicago hospital
to rule out Ebola
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[December 20, 2014]
By Mary Wisniewski
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A child who arrived in
Chicago with a fever was under observation on Friday at a city hospital
to rule out the Ebola virus, hospital officials said.
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 Federal officials screening arriving passengers at O'Hare
International Airport detected the fever, but no other symptoms of
the disease, the University of Chicago Medical Center said in a
statement.
The patient was isolated under strict quarantine protocols until the
child’s condition improves and a diagnosis is established, the
hospital said. The child was in stable condition.
The hospital gave no details on the child, including age, gender or
where the patient flew from, citing patient privacy laws.
The medical center said later in the day that the child remained in
stable condition, without giving any information on whether the
patient had been infected.
"There is no threat to the public, our staff and our patients," it
said.
The University of Chicago Medical Center is one of the facilities
across the United States designated as an Ebola treatment center by
the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
There have been no confirmed cases of Ebola in Chicago.
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Ebola has killed nearly 7,000 people out of more than 18,600
infected, nearly all of them in the impoverished West African
countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
(Additional rpeorting by Jon Herskovitz. Editing by Jonathan Oatis
and Andre Grenon)
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