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Colorado Patient Being Evaluated For Ebola

Colorado Patient Being Evaluated For Ebola

A patient is being evaluated in isolation at a Colorado hospital for Ebola after experiencing symptoms of the disease.

The patient had recently travelled to an Ebola-affected country, health officials said.

The patient was transported on Wednesday evening to the Medical Center of the Rockies in the city of Loveland after falling ill, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said.

The patient has not been identified and is considered low-risk.

Four people have been diagnosed with the deadly virus in the United States.

The first diagnosis, a Liberian visitor to Texas in September who died, was riddled with missteps. Two nurses who treated the man contracted the disease but have recovered.

New York doctor Craig Spencer, who was diagnosed with the disease after he returned from treating patients in Guinea, has also recovered.

Earlier this week, five American aid workers who were monitored in Nebraska for possible exposure to Ebola were released after completing their quarantine periods free from symptoms.

More than 10,400 people have died of the Ebola virus since the West African outbreak was identified in early 2014.