Two Ebola scares in Boston are put to rest

A patient in Boston does not have Ebola after all, hospital officials said Monday, the day after a scare involving the patient triggered the evacuation of a medical clinic in a nearby suburb.

On Sunday afternoon, the Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates clinic in Braintree, Mass., was evacuated amid fears about a possible Ebola case there. The patient in question was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

Beth Israel Deaconess said Monday night that it had determined with certainty that the unidentified patient, who had reported traveling from Liberia, does not have Ebola.

Also on Monday, emergency workers met an Emirates flight from Dubai arriving at Boston’s Logan International Airport and evacuated five passengers who had flu-like symptoms, an airport spokesman said. The five were taken to hospitals, and the others on the plane cleared customs, he said.

The Boston Public Health Commission later announced that its Infectious Disease Bureau determined the five passengers “do not meet the criteria for any infections of public health concern, including Ebola.”
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