Maryland Health Secretary: Baltimore Patient Does Not Have Ebola

The individual admitted to the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore for Ebola assessment Monday night tested negative for the virus, according to Joshua Sharfstein, M.D.

Sharfstein, who is the secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, reported Tuesday morning that the patient in question had been a traveler.

The international traveler landed at an airport in the area before state health officials referred the person to the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, WJZ reported.

“Thanks to all the MD public health and health care workers who responded quickly and safely to traveler who turned out *not* to have #ebola,” Sharfstein said.

The state has identified three hospitals to accept potential Ebola cases: University of Maryland Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital and MedStar Washington Hospital Center.

Evaluating and containing the patient was “preventive” and “intended to safeguard [the] public,” Baltimore City Interim Health Commissioner Jacquelyn Duval-Harvey told WJZ.

Health officials said Tuesday that there was no threat to the public.

“There is absolutely no need ... to think there is Ebola in Baltimore City,” Duval-Harvey told WBAL. Officials said there are not any confirmed cases of Ebola in Maryland.

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