By Chelsea Rice and Jack Pickell
Boston.com Staff
October 27, 2014 10:13 AM
9:50 a.m. ET: Out of the tents, into the light. Kaci Hickox, the nurse from Maine who recently returned from West Africa and was quarantined for the past three days at University Hospital in Newark, N.J. after landing at Newark International Airport, has been cleared to return home by the state’s public health officials.
Hickox tested negative for Ebola the morning of Oct. 27, and the State of New Jersey Department of Health said Monday morning that she has been symptom-free for 24 hours.
“She will remain subject to New Jersey’s mandatory quarantine order while in New Jersey,” said the State of New Jersey Department of Health in a statement. “Health officials in Maine have been notified of her arrangements and will make a determination under their own laws on her treatment when she arrives.”
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Her treatment during her quarantine has been criticized by Hickox and federal and public health officials.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, at a campaign event Monday, said “when she has time to reflect, she’ll understand,” according to The Associated Press.
9:07 a.m. ET: Child Being Tested in NYC Hospital, Official Says: A five-year-old boy who recently returned to the US from Guinea is being tested for Ebola at New York City’s Bellevue Hospital after being brought to the hospital with a fever, the city’s health department commissioner said Monday, according to a BuzzFeed report.
Test results are expected to be announced later Monday, according to the report.
7:40 a.m. ET: In it to win it: Samantha Power, the US ambassador to the United Nations, pledged the long-term support of the United States in the fight against the Ebola virus.
‘‘We have got to overcome the fear and the stigma that are associated with Ebola,’’ Power said during a meeting with religious leaders in Guinea, where the Ebola outbreak was first identified in March, according to The Associated Press.
Power will be in Sierra Leone Monday.
The latest numbers:
Number of cases worldwide in the current outbreak: 9,936 (Climbed 720 in five days)
Number of deaths: 4,877 (Climbed 322 in five days)
Countries currently affected by Ebola: Mali, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Spain, and the United States of America.
Countries where the outbreak has ended: Nigeria (Oct. 19), Senegal (Oct. 17)
And here’s your daily reminder not to panic:
The likelihood of contracting Ebola in Massachusetts remains very low, according to the state’s public health officials. You have to be in direct contact with an infected person’s bodily fluids while they are contagious (displaying symptoms of Ebola). Even if someone has been exposed, symptoms may appear in as little as two days, and in as many as 21 days, after exposure. The CDC says the average is 8 to 10 days.
Ebola symptoms:
- Fever (greater than 38.6°C or 101.5°F)
- Severe headache
- Muscle pain
- Weakness
- Diarrhea
- Vomiting
- Abdominal (stomach) pain
- Unexplained hemorrhage (bleeding or bruising)
Need more details? Here’s an MGH physician dropping some knowledge for you.
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