Five-year old boy tested for Ebola in NYC

World October 27, 2014, 18:01

The child who was taken to hospital with fever did not undergo any blood tests upon his arrival from Guinea

NEW YORK, October 27. /TASS/. A five-year-old boy who arrived from Guinea on Saturday is being tested for Ebola virus at a New York hospital, ABC news reported on Monday.

The child who was taken to hospital with fever did not undergo any blood tests upon his arrival from Guinea, ABC News said.

Four people have been so far diagnosed with Ebola in the United States. One of them, a Liberian national, died in a hospital in Texas on October 8.

According to the World Health Organization, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed over 4,900 people, mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

 

 

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