HYDE PARK — A child quarantined at the University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital has been cleared of a possible ebola infection.
The child, who vomited on a flight from Liberia to O’Hare International Airport, was quarantined on Tuesday evening as a precaution.
The patient tested negative for the disease late Thursday evening, according to the Chicago Department of Public Health, and was released.
A man, who also showed early symptoms of ebola on a separate flight from Liberia to O’Hare on Tuesday evening has also been cleared of any infection, but continues to be monitored at Rush University Medical Center.
In New York, however, a physician with Doctors Without Borders tested positive for ebola after returning from Guinea, where he was treating victims of the outbreak. Dr. Craig Spencer, 33, is New York's first ebola patient.
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