{"id":15204,"date":"2019-01-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/14\/u-s-doctor-released-from-omaha-hospital-after-ebola-monitoring\/"},"modified":"2019-01-15T16:56:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T16:56:56","slug":"u-s-doctor-released-from-omaha-hospital-after-ebola-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/14\/u-s-doctor-released-from-omaha-hospital-after-ebola-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Doctor Released From Omaha Hospital After Ebola Monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Patient completed required 21-day monitoring period and did not develop any symptoms<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>MONDAY, Jan. 14, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; An American doctor who was monitored for 21 days after possible Ebola exposure did not develop the deadly disease and has been released from the Nebraska Medicine-Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified doctor&#8217;s possible exposure to Ebola occurred in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where there is an Ebola outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This person completed the required 21-day monitoring period and did not develop symptoms of the disease,&#8221; Ted Cieslak, M.D., an infectious diseases specialist and associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health, said in a medical center news release. &#8220;Because this individual was symptom free throughout the monitoring period, it was determined they did not have Ebola, and therefore, were free to depart our facility and return home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The doctor arrived at the medical center for monitoring on Dec. 29 and was kept in a secure area not accessible to other patients or the public. After leaving the medical center on Jan. 12, the doctor left Omaha.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nebraskamed.com\/biocontainment\/ebola\/person-monitored-for-ebola-released\" target=\"_new\">Press Release<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patient completed required 21-day monitoring period and did not develop any symptoms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-15204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}