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Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a news conference that the child returned to the U.S. very, very recent


The patient, who was not named by the Health and Hospitals Corporation but identified in media reports as a 5-year-old boy, was taken by a HAZ TAC team wearing nevada luxury sport car rental protective gear Sunday night to Bellevue Hospital after developing a fever upon returning to the U.S. from one of three West African nations with an Ebola epidemic.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a news conference that the child returned to the U.S. very, very recently. The patient s mother took that trip, as well, and has shown no symptoms, a very encouraging sign, de Blasio said.
Because of the child s travel history and symptoms (early signs of Ebola are marked by a fever and gastrointestinal issues), the hospital, CDC and city s health department thought it prudent nevada luxury sport car rental to test for Ebola, the hospital said.
Elsewhere at Bellevue Hospital, one of eight hospitals in the state designated to handle Ebola cases, a  33-year-old physician who treated Ebola patients in West Africa as part of a humanitarian mission with Doctors Without Border continued to battle the often-deadly illness.
As New York City handles its first case of the virus, city leaders and health officials have reiterated their calls for calm, saying it is “extremely rare” for the average New Yorker to contract Ebola.
There is no vaccine and no known cure for Ebola. Patients suffering from the illness undergo so-called supportive treatment, meaning that doctors treat the symptoms among them fever, nausea, diarrhea and vomiting as they come so the patient’s own immune system can fight off the virus.

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