A body of a 40-year-old woman who was being monitored for Ebola when she died in a Brooklyn beauty salon has tested negative for the deadly virus, city health officials said Wednesday.
Local news media report that first responders in haz-mat gear descended on African Queen Hair Braiding after the woman collapsed Tuesday afternoon.
'The test result this morning was negative,' health department spokesman Levi Fishman said in an e-mail to USA TODAY.
Health officials earlier said the woman, who arrived in the United States 18 days ago from 'one of the West African countries with ongoing Ebola transmission, died suddenly of an apparent heart attack.'
The statement said the woman had shown no symptoms of Ebola.
'However due to travel history within the 21 day incubation period and an abundance of caution, an Ebola test will be performed on this individual's remains,' the statement said.
Last month, the city began monitoring all travelers from the West Africa nations of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia during the virus' 21-day incubation period. Hundreds of people are being monitored.
The only patient to test positive for the disease, Craig Spencer, was pronounced free of the virus and discharged from the city's Bellevue Hospital on Nov. 11.
Aerial photo Shows downtown Brooklyn, foreground, and the Manhattan skyline.(Photo: Mark Lennihan, AP)
Martin Salia, a physician and native of the West African nation whose family lives in Maryland, was flown from Sierra Leone on Saturday and rushed to the Nebraska Medical Center's Biocontainment Unit. He died about 36 hours later.Ebola has killed more than 5,000 people, the vast majority in West Africa. Two people have died of Ebola in the United States. A Liberian man living in Texas, Thomas Eric Duncan, contracted the disease in his native country but was not diagnosed until after his return to Dallas. He died Oct. 8.
Eight other people treated for the disease in the United States have survived.
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