Sick Child From Liberia Does Not Have Ebola, Illinois Health Officials Say
CHICAGO (AP) -- Tests have determined that a child who had traveled from Liberia to Chicago does not have Ebola.
In a news release Thursday night, the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Chicago Ebola Resource Network said preliminary tests -- later confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- were negative for Ebola.
The release says the child who reportedly vomited while traveling has been discharged from the University of Chicago Medical Center.
The child was one of two people traveling from Liberia to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport who were taken to area hospitals and placed in isolation as a precaution.
The adult was removed from isolation at Rush University Medical Center after doctors determined the patient's mild symptoms were attributable to previously diagnosed typhoid fever.
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