Pictured: The moment a five-year-old boy feared to have Ebola was stretchered from his New York home by hazmat-suited emergency workers
- The child was reportedly vomiting, had bloodshot eyes and a 103F fever
- He was carried from his Bronx home by EMS workers in Hazmat suits
- The child's mother is with him at Bellevue and she is being monitored for Ebola symptoms
- He had returned from a family trip to Guinea on Saturday night on a Moroccan Airlines flight which landed at JFK
- Five family members are being kept in quarantine inside their apartment
- NYC's first Ebola patient Dr Craig Spencer also being treated at Bellevue - he was in a 'serious but stable' condition on Monday
- Dr Spencer is 'awake, in good spirits' and has received a plasma transfusion from Ebola survivor, missionary worker Nancy Writebol
A five-year-old boy with possible Ebola symptoms has been tested at New York's Bellevue Hospital after returning from a family trip to West Africa.
The child was reportedly vomiting, had bloodshot eyes and a 103F fever when emergency medical workers wearing protective Hazmat suits rushed him from his Bronx home on Sunday night at 9pm.
The little boy was pictured being stretchered out of his home, completely wrapped in protective clothing while his mother followed covering her face with a mask.
The boy has been quarantined with his mother at New York's designated Ebola care center. Her health is being monitored and she is exhibiting no symptoms. His test results are expected in the next few hours.
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A five-year-old boy who developed Ebola-like symptoms after returning home from Guinea, West Africa was pictured on Sunday night being stretchered out of his Bronx home in New York by Hazmat-suited emergency responders while completely wrapped in protective clothing
FDNY workers in Hazmat suits at Bellevue Hospital on Sunday after a five-year-old boy was transported to the medical facility with possible Ebola symptoms
An FDNY worker in a Hazmat suits at Bellevue Hospital on Sunday after transporting a boy with Ebola-like symptoms who had returned
with his family from a trip to Guinea
He had returned from a family trip to Guinea on Saturday night on a Moroccan Airlines flight which landed at JFK.
He was screened but did not have a fever when he entered the U.S., CDC director, Dr Tom Frieden said on Monday.
Five members of the child's family have been quarantined inside their apartment, law enforcement officials said.
The boy's preliminary test results were expected later today, hospital officials said on Monday.
Commissioner of the NYC Health Department, Dr Mary Bassett, said: 'He has no clear exposure to Ebola but his exposure history is unclear.'
A neighbour told the New York Post: 'He looked weak. He was really, really out of it.'
Guinea is one of the three countries, along with Liberia and Sierra Leone, at the center of the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
It has since grown into the largest ever outbreak of the disease killing some 5,000 people in the region.
The boy was rushed to Bellevue from his home in the Bronx after developing a 103F and vomiting, emergency workers said
New York's first confirmed Ebola patient, Dr Craig Spencer, is currently being treated in an isolation ward at Bellevue Hospital after contracting the virus in Guinea.
He was in a serious but stable condition on Monday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
The hospital said that he was 'awake, communicating, and in good spirits' but has entered the next stage of his illness.
He is receiving antiviral therapy as well as plasma therapy after getting a plasma transfusion from Ebola survivor, aid worker Nancy Writebol.
Mrs Writebol, 59, recovered from Ebola after contracting the virus during missionary work in Liberia in July.
Dr Spencer, 33, was admitted to the hospital on Thursday - just six days after returning from Guinea where he he was helping to fight the outbreak with the Doctors Without Borders organisation.
His fiancée, 30-year-old Morgan Dixon, who was initially being quarantined at Bellevue has been allowed to go home under quarantine.
It was reported this weekend that Bellevue hospital staff caring for Dr Spencer were being denied service at local restaurants and had their children treated differently.
Tests: A five-year-old boy is being treated at New York's Bellevue Hospital after showing possible Ebola symptoms after returning from a
trip to Guinea in West Africa
Trip: The youngster returned from a family trip to Guinea (pictured) on Saturday. The country is at the centre of the current Ebola outbreak with the first cases reported in south east Gueckedou region in March
Mayor Bill de Blasio held an afternoon press conference in which he called such treatment 'absolutely unacceptable', and said there would be consequences for individuals' found disrespecting nurses or other medical personnel.
Dr Craig Spencer returned to New York from Guinea on October 17, and was admitted to hospital six days later with symptoms of the deadly virus
Mayor de Blasio and his wife Chiraline McCray visited the isolation ward at Bellevue where Dr Spencer is being treated and said the volunteering health care workers they encountered there were 'calm, cool, collected and purposeful'.
However, he was shocked to hear reports about how some of these doctors and nurses were being denied food and treated differently when strangers learned they worked at the hospital.
Mayor de Blasio did not specify what kind of punishment could be handed out.
The mayor described the Bellevue workers treating Dr Craig Spencer as the 'the first responders in this crisis' and like 'the Marines of our health care system'.
The mayor also addressed a nurse who was being monitored this weekend in New Jersey, under new rules in both New Jersey and New York requiring health care workers returning from West Africa to submit to a 21-day quarantine.
Nurse Kaci Hickox talked to CNN about her 'inhumane' containment at the airport, saying she is confined in a tent with limited contact to the outside world, no flushable toilet, TV or reading material.
'Unacceptable': New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio held a press conference on Sunday to address reports that Bellevue health care workers were being mistreated for working at the hospital where the city's first Ebola patient is being cared for
Mayor de Blasio appeared to hit out at New Jersey officials, by calling the conditions of Ms Hickox's quarantine 'inappropriate'.
'The problem here is that this hero coming back from the front, having done the right thing, was treated with disrespect and was treated as if she had done something wrong when she hadn't,' Mayor de Blasio said.
'We owe her better than that.'
However, the mayor added that he respects the right of other governments to make their own decisions in how to handle this outbreak.
'Inhumane': Mayor De Blasio also spoke about Nurse Kaci Hickox, who is currently under quarantine in New Jersey. The nurse spoke to
CNN, calling her quarantine 'inhumane' for having no access to a flushable toilet, TV or reading material. Mr De Blasio said her treatment
was 'inappropriate'
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
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