DEVELOPING: CDC to test 30-year-old teacher for Ebola virus in NEW MEXICO...
(EAG NEWS) -- ALBUQUERQUE – An unidentified 30-year-old teacher who recently visited Sierra Leone, Africa is being tested for Ebola.
ABC 7 reports the woman recently developed a “sore throat, headache, muscle aches and fever.”
She
is reported at the University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque in
“stable condition,” according to the the news station.ABC 7 reports the woman recently developed a “sore throat, headache, muscle aches and fever.”
It is not clear if she is lives in New Mexico or was there at the time she came down with Ebola-like symptoms.
The woman returned from Sierra Leone “earlier this month,” according to the Albuquerque Journal.
Though the woman supposedly had
no “known” exposure to the virus while in the country, she’s being
tested “out of an abundance of caution,” the newspaper reports.
KOB 4 reports the woman is “not a probable case, but a person under investigation …”
The Journal continues:
“The
Department of Health is working closely with UNM Hospital and the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on this investigation,”
Department of Health Cabinet Secretary Retta Ward, said in a news
release. “UNM Hospital has isolated the patient, and is following the
appropriate protocols to ensure other patients and health care workers
are safe.”
Health officials downplayed the concern to the newspaper, saying Ebola is “not a substantial risk to the U.S.”
A person infected with the Ebola virus is reportedly not contagious until symptoms appear.
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