Greyhound bus quarantined in Steamboat after an Ebola alert



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STEAMBOAT SPRINGS – A Greyhound bus pbading through Steamboat Springs on Sunday was briefly quarantined due to an Ebola alert.

The Denver Police Department contacted the Routt County Sheriff's Office at approximately 2pm. Sunday asking that the bus be stopped. According to the Steamboat Springs Police Department, Captain Jerry Stabile, a police officer from Steamboat Springs, may have been in contact with a patient from Denver Health who was being tested for the virus. 19659003]. Stabile said about the bus

: "They suspected that someone there might have been exposed," Stabile said about the bus. Stabile said that the patient had worked as a medical missionary in a region of Congo that has recently experienced an Ebola outbreak. . The man had some symptoms of the virus: fever, muscle aches, fatigue, diarrhea, vomiting, stomach pain and unexplained hemorrhage. no Ebola. Three members of a team of paramedics were also hospitalized, reported the Post. The man is in fair condition, but the cause of his symptoms has not yet been determined, according to the Post.

Denver Health is one of 10 hospitals in the United States that has been licensed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The CDC congratulated Congo for recently ending the ninth epidemic of 39. Ebola occurred in the country since 1976. The epidemic began on May 8. There were 54 cases and 33 deaths

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