Suspected Ebola scare at NYC urgent care has patients escorted by hazmat crews

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Suspected Ebola scare at NYC urgent care has patients escorted by hazmat crews​

By
Joe Marino and

Isabel Keane
Published Feb. 16, 2025, 1:01 p.m. ET



A suspected Ebola exposure at a Manhattan urgent-care facility had two patients rushed to the hospital by emergency workers in hazmat suits Sunday – but the infection may be norovirus, sources said.
The patients were transported from a City MD on East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue by first responders wearing hazmat suits, law enforcement sources said.

The patients were transported from CityMD on East 125th Street in Manhattan.Tomas E. Gaston

Ebola symptoms include fever, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle pain, and internal and external bleeding.Tomas E. Gaston
Officials feared Ebola infections because patients had traveled from Uganda and had symptoms consistent with the disease but no tests had confirmed its presence, the sources added.


Health officials later said the sickness had spread quickly between family members, which meant it may be more likely to be norovirus.

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They have been taken to Bellevue Hospital for testing and further evaluation, the sources added. The City MD had been reopened and first responders OK’d to work with basic PPE equipment.
Ebola, which is spread through contact with bodily fluids of an infected person or contaminated materials, manifests as a deadly hemorrhagic fever.
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Its symptoms include fever, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle pain, and at times internal and external bleeding and are similar to those of norovirus, though the sickness is not deadly.