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 Federal officials screening for Ebola at O'Hare International
Airport in Chicago detected a fever in the child, who had been held
in isolation at the University of Chicago Medical Center for
monitoring since Friday.
"Tests by the Illinois Department of Public Health confirmed a
negative result for Ebola," the Illinois Department of Public Health
said in a statement.
Hospital officials have given no details on the child, including age
or sex, citing patient privacy laws.
The University of Chicago Medical Center is one of the U.S.
hospitals designated as an Ebola treatment center by the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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.
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Four people since September have tested positive for Ebola in the
United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. There are currently no cases of Ebola in the country.
There have been no confirmed cases of Ebola in Chicago.
(Reporting by Laila Kearney; editing by Andrew Hay)
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