Medical Center in Boston with Possible Ebola Patient Quarantined
Andy Vitalicio | | Oct 12, 2014 04:49 PM EDT |
(Photo : Boston Globe) An ambulance sat in the parking lot outside the Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates building in Braintree, Greater Boston, where a possible case of Ebola was reported.
A medical facility in Braintree in Greater Boston is now under quarantine after a patient was isolated outside of the facility with a possible case of Ebola.
Harvard Vanguard Medical Center was quarantined after the patient exhibited Ebola-like symptoms Sunday.
"Ebola protocol is in place," announced Joe Zanca of the Braintree Fire Department. "We don't know if he actually has Ebola."
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The man turned up at the facility Sunday afternoon complaining of a headache. When he said he had travelled recently to western Africa, he was immediately isolated as a precaution.
UPDATE: Patient with suspected Ebola had recently travelled to Liberia. He was taken to the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School.
No one is being allowed to leave the Braintree hospital. A woman outside the facility was interviewed by the Boston Herald and said she accompanied her husband to have his sore throat checked earlier Sunday. She left for 10 minutes and when she came back, there emergency responders in hazmat suits all over. She was told she couldn't go in.
Her husband is not the possible Ebola case.
People working near the hospital said a Brewster ambulance left the center at around 4 p.m. escorted by police. The driver was seen wearing a hazmat suit and a facemask. The destination could not be immediately confirmed.
Harvard Vanguard Medical has more than 20 locations in eastern Massachussets and provides care for more than 530,000 patients at any given time.
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