(Updated 4:48 p.m.) A graduate student at the Yale School of Public Health has tested negative for Ebola after being hospitalized with symptoms of the deadly virus Wednesday night at Yale-New Haven Hospital.
The student, who returned from Liberia on Saturday, was being treated in isolation Thursday.
The student has not been identified and officials have declined to provide any identifying information, including whether the student is a man or a woman. According to a source, the student does not have children.
A specimen was sent to a lab in Boston and preliminary results were released about 4:45 p.m.
Officials said the patient’s condition improved upon being admitted to the hospital.
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