Honolulu, Hawaii — (KHNL) The Hawaii Department of Health says a patient at a hospital in Honolulu was placed into isolation on Wednesday, and officials have not ruled out the possibility that the individual may have contracted the Ebola virus.
A patient who checked into the hospital on Wednesday morning is currently undergoing testing for several conditions, Health Department officials said. The patient had not yet been tested for the Ebola virus late Wednesday afternoon, and any tests for the virus would need to be sent to the U.S. mainland for analysis before any confirmation could be made, according to the Department of Health.
“We have not definitively said, we don’t know why this person is ill,” said Dr. Melissa Viray of the Department of Health in Hawaii. “But because we have concerns regarding Ebola as a possibility, even as a distant one, the hospital is taking all the precautions necessary to keep people safe.”
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