Ebola Ruled Out in NYC’s Recent Infectious Disease Scare

Ebola Ruled Out in NYC’s Recent Infectious Disease Scare

The last time I wrote about Ebola, the deadly virus known to cause massive hemorrhaging, Chinese researchers had created another franken-virus with parts of this lethal pathogen in a lab, resulting in an exceptionally deadly infection that killed a group of hamsters horrifically.

This week, there was Ebola news a little closer to home. Earlier this week, two patients were transported from a New York City urgent care facility to a hospital after they exhibited symptoms of the deadly and incurable disease.

The patients were transported from a City MD on East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue around 11:16 a.m. ET on Sunday, the New York City Fire Department told DailyMail.com.

Images showed first responders wearing face coverings and gloves as they moved the patients into ambulances on the rainy Upper East Side street.

Officials suspected they may have Ebola infections because the patients had recently traveled from Uganda where there is a current outbreak of the disease, according to the New York Post.

The concern stemmed from the patients’ contact with Ugandans, as Uganda is experiencing an outbreak. However, the illness may have been a little less severe.

A suspected Ebola exposure at a Manhattan urgent-care facility had two patients rushed to the hospital by emergency workers in hazmat suits Sunday – but the disease was ruled out.

The patients were transported from a City MD on East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue by first responders wearing hazmat suits, law enforcement sources said but officials later said it was likely norovirus and not Ebola.

Officials feared Ebola infections because the patients may have had contact with an individual or individuals who traveled from Uganda and had symptoms consistent with the disease but no tests had confirmed its presence, the sources added. Early emergency notifications were that the patients may have traveled directly, the sources said.

I must admit, I did feel like dying the last time I had norovirus. But, I digress.

Meanwhile, over in Uganda, over 200 people are in quarantine.

Uganda has discharged eight people after they recovered from Ebola although at least 265 contacts remain under quarantine, its health minister said.

The East African country declared an outbreak of the highly infectious and often fatal haemorrhagic disease late last month after one man – a male nurse at the Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala – died.

Eight other people received treatment and “have all done well and are due for discharge today,” Health Minister, Jane Ruth Aceng told a press conference on Tuesday.

She said 265 contacts remained under “strict quarantine and monitoring” in the capital Kampala, as well as in Jinja and Mbale – two cities in Eastern Uganda.

The most recent outbreak began in late January and marked Uganda’s first since 2022 and the world’s ninth involving the “Sudan” strain of Ebola.

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