NYC hospital patient being tested for Ebola

A Manhattan hospital patient with high fever and gastrointestinal symptoms is being tested for the Ebola virus, officials said Monday.
The unidentified male Mount Sinai patient recently traveled to an Ebola-afflicted West African country.
He arrived at the emergency room Monday morning, has been placed in “strict isolation,” and is undergoing tests to figure out the cause of his symptoms.
On Monday evening, the Health Department deemed it “unlikely” that the man has the deadly disease — but they’re going through with the tests as a precaution.
“After consultation with CDC and Mount Sinai, the Health Department has concluded that the patient is unlikely to have Ebola. Specimens are being tested for common causes of illness and to definitively exclude Ebola,” the Health Department said in a statement.
New York City residents outside the hospital were anxious about the possibility of an outbreak.