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Paulding County man tests negative for Ebola
Posted: 4:55 p.m. Monday, Aug. 18, 2014
Paulding County man tests negative for Ebola
By Richard Elliot
PAULDING COUNTY, Ga. —
A Paulding County man tested negative for the Ebola virus after he became ill shortly after his return to the U.S. from a trip to Africa, according to officials.
The Paulding County Sheriff's Office and Fire-Rescue confirm they got a 911 call from the man's son Saturday night stating his father recently returned from Nigeria and was showing, what he believed, were Ebola-like symptoms.
Paulding County emergency medical technicians responded to the couple's senior living apartment in full Hazmat suits and rushed the elderly man and his wife to an isolation unit at Emory University Hospital, in DeKalb County -- the same hospital where two American Ebola patients are recovering.
Officials said tests confirmed the man did not have Ebola and, late Monday, they said tests also showed the man did not have Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome or MERS. However, they said the man remains in isolation at Emory.
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Posted: 4:55 p.m. Monday, Aug. 18, 2014
Paulding County man tests negative for Ebola
By Richard Elliot
PAULDING COUNTY, Ga. —
A Paulding County man tested negative for the Ebola virus after he became ill shortly after his return to the U.S. from a trip to Africa, according to officials.
The Paulding County Sheriff's Office and Fire-Rescue confirm they got a 911 call from the man's son Saturday night stating his father recently returned from Nigeria and was showing, what he believed, were Ebola-like symptoms.
Paulding County emergency medical technicians responded to the couple's senior living apartment in full Hazmat suits and rushed the elderly man and his wife to an isolation unit at Emory University Hospital, in DeKalb County -- the same hospital where two American Ebola patients are recovering.
Officials said tests confirmed the man did not have Ebola and, late Monday, they said tests also showed the man did not have Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome or MERS. However, they said the man remains in isolation at Emory.
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