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| Woman's Remains Being Tested for Ebola in New York City |
| 2014-11-21 |
| [NYT] A woman who died of an apparent heart attack at a New York City hair salon on Tuesday will be tested for the Ebola virus out of "an abundance of caution" because she had recently been in West Africa, city health officials said. The woman, whose name was not released, came to the United States 18 days earlier from one of the four West African countries most affected by the Ebola outbreak, the health department said. She did not show symptoms of the virus before her death. Health officials said they were testing the woman's remains because she had a travel history within the 21-day incubation period for the virus. Test results were expected early Wednesday. The city has been tracking about 300 people who had traveled in West Africa. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gives the city a daily list of travelers coming to New York City from those countries. Fire Department officials said they were called to the hair salon, African Queen Hair Braiding, at 32 Belmont Avenue in Brooklyn, around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday for a patient in cardiac arrest. The woman was pronounced dead there, fire officials said. |
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