{"id":917640,"date":"2026-10-02T08:54:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T08:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/917640\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T08:54:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T08:54:20","slug":"ebola-suspected-case-at-montreal-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/917640\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola: suspected case at Montreal hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0October 01, 2026 at 9:36p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0October 01, 2026 at 5:11p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A patient who was being evaluated at Centre hospitalier de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al (CHUM) for a potential case of Ebola was determined not to have the virus, according to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The hospital wrote in an email around 4:30 p.m. that a patient was being evaluated for a potential case of Ebola. However, at around 8 p.m., the hospital confirmed the patient was no longer considered a potential case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe CHUM confirms that the patient\u2019s isolation related to Ebola has been lifted,\u201d a media spokesperson for CHUM told CTV News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cConsequently, Ebola protocols will not be activated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For confidentiality reasons, the hospital said it will not comment further.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The hospital said standard protocols were in place while the case was being investigated, including temporarily rerouting ambulances to allow staff to safely transfer the patient from the ambulance to a dedicated isolation room in the emergency department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada implemented a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/public-health\/services\/diseases\/ebola\/border-measures.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/public-health\/services\/diseases\/ebola\/border-measures.html\">travel ban<\/a> in May related to an ongoing Ebola outbreak that prevents people from Uganda, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from travelling to the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The ban was updated in September and set to expire on Sept. 28 but was extended to Nov. 27. <\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0October 01, 2026 at 9:36p.m. EDT Published:\u00a0October 01, 2026 at 5:11p.m. EDT A patient who was being evaluated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":917641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[712,49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-917640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917640","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=917640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}