New York hospital runs ebola tests on healthcare worker

A New York City hospital is running ebola tests on a healthcare worker who returned to the US from West Africa with a fever and gastrointestinal symptoms, the city’s Health Department said yesterday.

Preliminary test results were expected in the next 12 hours.

The patient being treated at Bellevue Hospital is a healthcare worker who returned to the US within the past 21 days from one of the three African countries facing the ebola outbreak.