A patient in a Dallas hospital is showing signs of the Ebola virus and is being kept in strict isolation with test results pending, hospital officials said Monday, according to Reuters.
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas said in a statement Monday that the patient's symptoms and recent travel indicated a case of Ebola, the virus that has killed more than 3,000 people across West Africa and infected a handful of Americans who have traveled to that region, Reuters reported.
Preliminary test results from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are expected to come back Tuesday, according to Reuters.
Hospital spokeswoman Candace White would not answer any questions about the patient or where the patient had visited, Reuters reported. Presbyterian Hospital's statement said officials there were following CDC recommendations to keep doctors, staff and patients safe.
The 898-bed acute-care hospital "is following all federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Texas Department of Health recommendations to ensure the safety of patients, hospital staff, volunteers, physicians and visitors," it said, according to Reuters.
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas did say in a brief statement the unnamed patient's symptoms and recent travel history as reasons for the isolation, according to Reuters.
The National Institutes of Health recently admitted an American doctor exposed to the virus while volunteering in Sierra Leone, and four other patients have been treated at hospitals in Georgia and Nebraska, according to Reuters.
On Saturday, the U.S. National Institutes of Health said it would admit to one of its special observation wards in Bethesda, Maryland, an American physician exposed to the Ebola virus while volunteering in Sierra Leone, Reuters reported.
According to the CDC, Ebola symptoms can include fever, muscle pain, vomiting and bleeding, and can appear as long as 21 days after exposure to the virus, Reuters reported.
