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Bronx Boy Who Tested Negative For Ebola Released From Bellevue Hospital

By Trevor Kapp | October 30, 2014 3:47pm
 The 5-year-old boy taken to Bellevue Hospital Monday morning with symptoms similar to Ebola was found not to have the virus and was released.
The 5-year-old boy taken to Bellevue Hospital Monday morning with symptoms similar to Ebola was found not to have the virus and was released.
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MURRAY HILL — The 5-year-old boy who tested negative for the Ebola virus after returning from Africa was released Thursday, hospital officials said.

The child returned from Guinea on Saturday with his family and began showing signs of illness Sunday night. Medical crews in hazmat gear transported him to Bellevue the next morning after his mother called 911, sources and the Department of Health said.

He was cleared of Ebola Monday night, but remained in Bellevue with a respiratory illness until Thursday, the Department of Health said.

"The patient requires no further hospitalization but will be actively monitored along with his mother and one other sibling, as they have returned from Guinea in the last 21 days," the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation said in a statement.

The boy's family declined to comment.

Meanwhile, Dr. Craig Spencer, the city’s first Ebola patient, remains at the hospital under quarantine in serious but stable condition, HHC officials said.

Spencer, 33, had returned to New York on Oct. 17 from Guinea, where he was working with Doctors Without Borders to care for patients who had contracted the virus.

Additional reporting by Ben Fractenberg.