American monitored for Ebola at Nebraska Medical Center released

Public health officials at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha released an individual they had been monitoring for Ebola symptoms for over two weeks Saturday morning, according to a medical center news release.

The release stated the individual never developed the disease and poses no risk to the public.

"This person completed the required 21-day monitoring period and did not develop symptoms of the disease," Dr. Ted Cieslak, an infectious diseases specialist at Nebraska Medicine, said in the release.

The individual is an American health care provider who was admitted to the medical center on Dec. 29 for monitoring following a possible exposure to the virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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