{"id":87479,"date":"2019-02-06T12:22:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T20:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/patient-tested-for-ebola-in-pennsylvania"},"modified":"2019-02-06T12:22:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T20:22:21","slug":"patient-tested-for-ebola-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/patient-tested-for-ebola-in-pennsylvania","title":{"rendered":"Patient Tested for Ebola in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/patient-tested-for-ebola-in-pennsylvania2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A patient in Pennsylvania is being tested for a possible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/46479-ebola-treatment-cure.html\">Ebola virus<\/a> infection, according to news reports.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday (Feb. 6), the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) said that it was testing the patient for the deadly virus out of \u201can abundance of caution,\u201d according to local news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/Ebola-Monitoring-Hospital-at-University-of-Pennsylvania-505407571.html\">NBC 10 Philadelphia<\/a>. Early test results suggest the patient has another condition that is the cause of their illness, but the hospital is taking precautions until the definitive results are in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA patient who met screening criteria for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/48141-how-doctors-test-for-ebola.html\">Ebola testing<\/a> is currently being evaluated at HUP while tests to assess the patient\u2019s condition are completed,\u201d Dr. Patrick J. Brennan, chief medical officer at Penn Medicine, told told NBC 10.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/64698-patient-tested-ebola-pennsylvania.html\">https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/64698-patient-tested-ebola-pennsylvania.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A patient in Pennsylvania is being tested for a possible Ebola virus infection, according to news reports. On Wednesday (Feb. 6), the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) said that it was testing the patient for the deadly virus out of \u201can abundance of caution,\u201d according to local news outlet NBC 10 Philadelphia. Early [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}