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Is Ebola In Baltimore? Mystery Patient Quarantined – Amid Growing Controversy Over Whether States Should Be Allowed To Force Potential Victims Into 21-Day Isolation
- Ebola patient’ quarantined at University of Maryland Medical Center
- It is one of just three hospitals in the state equipped to treat the virus
- Comes after state said all returning west Africa nurses should self-isolate
- New CDC rules urge voluntary, at-home quarantine for ‘high risk’ travelers
- But officials slammed New Jersey for holding nurse against her will
- Nurse Kaci Hickox was held in unheated tent but had no symptoms
- The Doctors Without Borders nurse was quarantined when she flew in to New Jersey from Sierra Leone on Friday despite testing negative twice
By MIA DE GRAAF FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 19:59 EST, 27 October 2014 | UPDATED: 07:17 EST, 28 October 2014
A suspected Ebola patient has been quarantined at a hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.
The unidentified patient was transferred to the University of Maryland Medical Center at around 6pm tonight following a request from state health officials.
Hospital directors would not confirm where the person was transferred from or whether they had recently arrived from abroad.
In a memo sent out to hospital employees, read by CBS, a spokesman said: ‘We have accepted the transport by DHMH (Public Health) of a potential Ebola patient for further assessment.
‘They are appropriately isolated and receiving further assessment and care.’
Maryland’s University hospital is one of just three in the state equipped to treat the deadly virus.
One, the National Institute of Health in Bethedsa, admitted former Ebola patient Nina Pham 10 days ago.
She was discharged days later when tests revealed she had overcome the disease.
