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Patient Exposed to Ebola Released from NIH Facility

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Getty 121914 NIH?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1419037381114Photo by Andrew Councill/MCT/MCT via Getty Images(BETHESDA, Md.) — The patient admitted to the National Institutes of Health facility in Maryland on Dec. 11 was discharged on Friday without having shown evidence of the Ebola virus.

The patient, who was not publicly identified, had been flown to the NIH facility from an overseas location by private medevac. The hospital said at the time that the patient’s admission and isolation was done “out of an abundance of caution.”

The patient will complete 21 days of monitoring at a private residence in Virginia, the facility said in a press release.

The patient had been providing bedside nursing care in Sierra Leone prior to being flown to the NIH facility.





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