Man with Ebola-Like Symptoms Being Treated in Boston

By Daniel Libon

A medical center in Braintree was evacuated Sunday afternoon as doctors discovered a man with a possible case of Ebola.

Fire officials tell WBZ that Harvard Vanguard Medical Center was evacuated starting at 2 p.m.

Outside the medical center on Grossman Drive, a man who recently traveled to West Africa was isolated before being transported to a hospital.

In a statement posted on their website, Harvard Vanguard confirmed that a patient who had been to Liberia went to their medical center in Braintree complaining of a headache and muscle aches.

“Out of an abundance of caution we immediately notified authorities and the patient was securely removed from the building and put into an ambulance now headed to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,” the statement said.

The man’s identity was not immediately released.

The building has since been reopened and Harvard Vanguard said they would work with the Department of Public Health who will determine next steps.

WHDH reported the patient was transported to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

Locally, two people have been treated for the potentially deadly disease in the past few weeks.

Providence photojournalist Ashoka Mukpo is being treated in a Nebraska hospital while Dr. Rick Sacra of Holden contracted the disease in Liberia while working as a missionary doctor.

Sacra was declared free of Ebola while Mukpo is showing slight improvement.