A man complaining of some Ebola-like symptoms and reporting recent travel in Liberia is being evaluated at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
The man was transported on Sunday by ambulance to Beth Israel Deaconess from an office of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates in Braintree, Mass., according to local news reports.
He is being evaluated and would be tested for the virus if appropriate, Chief Quality Officer Dr. Ken Shands said in a news conference in front of the the hospital, according to a Boston Globe report.
The report comes the same day Dallas health authorities reported what appears to be the first U.S. transmission of the disease. A nurse who helped care for Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas has tested positive for the Ebola. CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden said Sunday that there was a breach in protocol at some point during Duncan's treatment.
Duncan, who traveled to Dallas from Liberia in late September, died from the disease at Texas Heath Presbyterian on Oct. 8.
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