Ebola Ruled Out for Hawaii Patient

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A magnified view of the Ebola virus particles (in red) on the surface of a cell (in blue)
A magnified view of the Ebola virus particles (in red) on the surface of a cell (in blue).
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Health officials in Hawaii say that a man hospitalized in isolation is no longer being looked at as a possible case of Ebola.

The patient was being treated at a hospital in Honolulu and was reported to the state's health department as a possible case of Ebola. Officials launched an investigation into the cause of the patient's condition. Ebola was one possibility, they said yesterday.

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Bahar Gholipour
Bahar Gholipour
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Bahar Gholipour is a staff reporter for Live Science covering neuroscience, odd medical cases and all things health. She holds a Master of Science degree in neuroscience from the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris, and has done graduate-level work in science journalism at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She has worked as a research assistant at the Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives at ENS.