5-Year-Old New York Boy Tests Negative For Ebola

Cars pass Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital where Craig Spencer, a Doctors Without Borders physician who recently returned to the city after treating Ebola patients in West Africa, was rushed to Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, ... Cars pass Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital where Craig Spencer, a Doctors Without Borders physician who recently returned to the city after treating Ebola patients in West Africa, was rushed to Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, in New York. Spencer tested positive for the virus, according to preliminary test results, city officials said. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) MORE LESS
Start your day with TPM.
Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter

The 5-year-old boy isolated at a New York City hospital over concerns about Ebola tested negative for the virus on Monday afternoon, according to Reuters.

The boy will remain in isolation for monitoring and additional testing.

He was placed in isolation after he returned from a trip in Guinea with a 103 degree fever.

Latest Livewire

Notable Replies

  1. Wonderful!!! Now we can drain him like a gelfling for his essences without fear of contracting ebola!

  2. Avatar for hoagie hoagie says:

    IT dOesn’T MatTer…!!! LoCK hIm Up…No Trick Or TreaTIng fOr Him, tHe LiTTlE VecToR.

    Channeling Eustace. How’d I do?

  3. More rush marriages than active US ebola cases.
    More trump bankruptcies than US ebola deaths.

  4. This is nurse Kaci Hickox during her three days in her quarantine tent, don’t think the kid would have done well at all.

Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com

10 more replies

Participants

Avatar for system1 Avatar for littlegirlblue Avatar for ichthus Avatar for mcnett Avatar for carlosfiance Avatar for sniffit Avatar for terje Avatar for hoagie Avatar for smokinthegotp Avatar for occamsrazor2 Avatar for chicago11 Avatar for antisachetdethe Avatar for yellowdawgdem

Continue Discussion
Masthead Masthead
Founder & Editor-in-Chief:
Executive Editor:
Managing Editor:
Deputy Editor:
Editor at Large:
General Counsel:
Publisher:
Head of Product:
Director of Technology:
Associate Publisher:
Front End Developer:
Senior Designer: