{"id":917290,"date":"2026-10-02T02:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/917290\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T02:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:20:09","slug":"suspected-ebola-case-at-montreal-hospital-turns-out-to-be-a-false-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/917290\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected Ebola case at Montreal hospital turns out to be a false alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>A Montreal hospital has lifted emergency isolation measures after a suspected Ebola case was determined to be a false alarm, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The female patient arrived at the Centre hospitalier de l&#8217;Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al (CHUM) late Thursday afternoon exhibiting signs of the deadly disease.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Ir\u00e8ne Marcheterre, a spokesperson for the CHUM, said that as soon as the suspicious symptoms were identified, the hospital immediately enacted its required isolation protocols.<\/p>\n<p>She said all necessary safety measures were put in place, and insisted there was no risk to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Just before 8 p.m., another spokesperson, Ellen Caracas, told CBC News that the patient tested negative for Ebola and emergency protocols were lifted.<\/p>\n<p>The suspected case came amid an ongoing and deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where thousands have died in recent months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Marcheterre could not confirm whether the patient had recently travelled from the region, stating she did not know the woman&#8217;s travel history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":917291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,84],"class_list":["post-917290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}