Two suspected Ebola patients were transported from an urgent care institution from New York City to a hospital for treatment after they showed symptoms of the deadly and incurable disease.
The patients were transported from a city of MD on East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue around 11:16 am on Sunday, the New York City fire brigade told DailyMail.com.
Images showed first response who wore facial and gloves when they brought patients to ambulances in the rainy upper East Side Street.
Officials suspected that 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.
FDNY confirmed that the patients were taken to the Bellevue hospital, where the Health Officers department found that they had no Ebola.
“The two patients who searched for services on Citymd on February 16 at 153 East 125 Street have no Ebola,” said NYC Health Commissioner Dr. Michelle Morris.
'One patient is brought to NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue for routine tests and treatment. The NYC Health Department is in close communication with FDNY, CityMD and NYC Health + Hospitals. '
It is unknown to which disease the patients may suffer, but sources told the post that the infection might be a norovirus.
“We have no comments for the protection of the patient's privacy,” said City MD. “There is no report of an Ebola virus or exposure, consistent with whatever the Doh has confirmed.”
Two suspected Ebola patients were transported on Sunday from a city of MD (photo) on East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue
Images showed that First Responders wore facial clatters and gloves when they brought the patients to ambulances
The CDC has asked doctors to evaluate Americans for Ebola for fear that the disease has found its way to the country.
The Health Alert Network (HAN) Health Advisory was published after an Ebola outbreak was confirmed in Uganda on January 30.
On January 29, a 32-year-old nurse who worked in the Mulago National Referral Hospital in the capital Kampala on Ebola.
In the different days before his death, the deceased Ugandan nurse had developed high fever, chest pain, difficulty breathing and bleeding multiple body locations.
He had searched for treatment in multiple health facilities, including the Mulago reference hospital in Kampala, Saidina Abubakar Islamic Hospital in Matugga in the Wakiso district and the Mbal Regional Referral Hospital in Mbale City – but did not recover.
According to the CDC, he was also looking for treatment from a traditional healer. The agency said that post-mortem samples were being tested and confirmed Ebola.
The CDC said that Uganda experiences an outbreak of Sudan virus disease (SVD) in Kampala, Mbale and Wakiso. SVD is a type of Ebola disease caused by infection with the Sudan virus.
There are no vaccines or therapeutics approved for the prevention or treatment of SVD.
There are at least nine confirmed cases of the disease in Uganda, while 265 other people were monitored under quarantine, the health authorities said Tuesday.
Civil servants suspected that they may have Ebola infections because the patients had recently traveled from Uganda where there is a current outbreak of the disease
The CDC has asked doctors to start evaluating Americans for Ebola for fear that the disease has found its way to the country
There are no approved vaccines for the Sudan tribe of Ebola that infects people in Uganda. But the authorities have started a clinical examination to further test the safety and efficacy of a trial vaccine as part of measures to stop the spread of the current outbreak.
As part of the CDC advice, the agency has also issued a level 2 travel alarm for Uganda, which encourages travelers to practice improved precautions.
Ebola is spread by contact with physical liquids of an infected person or infected materials.
Symptoms are fever, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle pain and sometimes internal and external bleeding.
It mainly occurs in Africa Bezuiden de Sahara, which has seen outbreaks that have demanded more than 15,000 lives since it was first identified in 1976.
The last outbreak of Ebola in Uganda, who started in September 2022, killed at least 55 people by the time it was declared more than four months later.
Experts have warned of threats for global health after cutting Donald Trump and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
USAID, an independent agency founded by a congress act, manages a budget of $ 42.8 billion intended for humanitarian aid and development aid, including combating infectious diseases around the world.
