Thread: 5-year-old NYC boy being tested for Ebola develops fever

5-year-old NYC boy being tested for Ebola develops fever

By Lorena Mongelli and Yaron Steinbuch
October 27, 2014 | 10:25am

EMS workers in hazmat suits take the 5-year-old boy who came down with Ebola-like symptoms to a waiting ambulance on Sunday night.Photo: Victoria Rivera


A video obtained by The Post shows a heavily bundled 5-year-old Bronx boy being rushed by workers in hazmat suits to Bellevue Hospital, where he developed a low-grade fever Monday morning and is being tested for Ebola.

The boy’s mother also is seen in the video, emerging with just a face mask on behind her son at the 172nd Street building. The family returned Saturday night from Guinea, one of three West African countries ravaged by the disease.

The boy did not have a fever when he was initially examined Sunday night at Bellevue, according to the New York City Health and Hospitals Corp. He developed the fever about 7 a.m. Monday.

City Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett said on MSNBC that the boy has a low-grade fever and that the test results are expected by early afternoon.

Many residents in the six-story building told The Post that they were unaware of the situation and that the building has not yet been decontaminated.

“I saw the workers suited up taking the boy out,” said first-floor resident Tawana Johnson, 36, who took the video. “He looked out of it. I hope he’ll be OK. They’re a nice, hardworking family. … I heard he was playing with the neighbor’s kids and she sent them to school today.”



Johnson complained about the lack of information from officials.
http://nypost.com/2014/10/27/ny-boy-being-tested-for-ebola-develops-fever/

. . . Also on Monday, a 5-year-old boy who recently visited West Africa and had a fever tested negative for the virus in New York, according to health officials.
The boy, who was running a temperature,was with his mother at New York's Bellevue Hospital Center, said Dr. Ram Raju, president of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corp., which oversees Bellevue . . .

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/27/health...html?hpt=hp_t2