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

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.

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  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.

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