After results for one patient in Sacramento came back negative for the Ebola virus, another patient in the city is being tested at a different facility for the deadly disease.
The Sacramento Bee noted that hospital staffers at UC Davis Medical Center said on Friday that a patient tested for Ebola does not have the virus. Medical personnel confirmed that the patient was tested because they had symptoms consistent with the disease and a history of traveling to Ebola-ravaged regions.
CBS SF reported that after that news was announced, however, health officials at Kaiser Permanente said that a patient there was being tested for the often-fatal illness.
“A patient under investigation for Ebola was admitted to our hospital on Wednesday evening for assessment and testing to confirm or rule out the disease. The patient is considered low risk for Ebola and is being cared for and monitored in our Ebola Special Care Unit, out of an abundance of caution,” a statement from the hospital read. “Our Ebola treatment unit is isolated from the general patient population and is staffed by highly trained, dedicated personnel with experience in infectious diseases.”
Ebola has claimed the lives of almost 9,000 people, mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, since last year. Recently though, the number of cases in those countries have been declining.