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A man who recently visited Liberia is being assessed in a Boston hospital for a possible infection by the deadly Ebola virus, health officials said Sunday.
The man, whom officials have not identified, was taken by ambulance to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center late Sunday afternoon after his presence at a Braintree medical practice briefly shut down that facility earlier in the day.
Dr. Kenneth Sands, senior vice president of the department of health care and quality at Beth Israel Deaconess, said in a news conference Sunday evening that medical staff would assess the man’s symptoms over the next few hours and would test him for Ebola if appropriate.
Getting the results of that test from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would take 24 to 48 hours, Sands said.
“The assessment that this is really and truly an Ebola case has not been completed yet. It will be in the next few hours,” he said.
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