Officials: Soldier Found Dead Outside His Texas Home Did Not Have Ebola

Flowers decorate a fence outside of Fort Hood's east gate on Sunday, April 6, 2014, in Killeen, Texas, in honor of those killed and wounded in the Fort Hood shooting on April 2. Three people were killed and 16 were w... Flowers decorate a fence outside of Fort Hood's east gate on Sunday, April 6, 2014, in Killeen, Texas, in honor of those killed and wounded in the Fort Hood shooting on April 2. Three people were killed and 16 were wounded when a gunman opened fire before taking his own life at the Fort Hood military base. (AP Photo/ Tamir Kalifa) MORE LESS

The Fort Hood soldier who was found dead outside his home in Killeen, Texas tested negative for the Ebola virus, The San Antonio Express-News reported on Tuesday.

Military medical personnel told the newspaper that preliminary tests for Ebola were negative, assuaging concerns that the soldier had died of the virus after returning on Jan. 7 from an Ebola-fighting mission in West Africa.

The 24-year-old soldier, who was not identified, was cleared completely after more comprehensive tests were performed, the newspaper reported.

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  1. If you did not read the linked story that said this soldier was fighting Ebola in Africa, this headline would still make sense for Texas.

  2. Avatar for chammy chammy says:

    I am sure Fox News will be disappointed

  3. Hold your horses people. Nothing is official until the Republican Congress is allowed to examine the body from remote video. I believe Dr. Rand Paul has self-certified himself to be qualified to do this sort of thing.

  4. It’s not Ebolas that got him, he just shouldn’t have drank all that cough syrup.

    Seriously though, if we had some form of elections in a week or so, this would be very Ebolaish and all Obama’s fault. Funny how that works ain’t it.

    If we were as cynical and demented as the conservatives, the obvious answer to all of this would be, Jeb Bush has conspired with Chris Christie-Rick Perry-Ryand Paul and Romnerd to concoct a virus now known as Dem1Lib! to infect the military in order to create a secret militarized Police force that will force encampment upon us and the relinquishing of our entire financial portfolio because Liberty before liberals.
    This soldiers death is obviously designed to be a distraction from the Bush family crime Org that dates back to the 1800’s and is nothing but a false flag involving communism, Islamism, terrorism, dynamism, malapropism and migrationism.

    We need to see every single Republican Birf Certificate and supporting facts with witnesses like yesterday. And please, don’t miss next hours fear, Conservative using Teleprompters and eating, OMG, yellow mustard!!!

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