LAKEWOOD – A person who recently returned from Africa has been hospitalized with Ebola-like symptoms, according to multiple reports. The Ebola case in Lakewood

State and local police responded overnight, Tuesday into Wednesday, to what was classified as a “hazmat situation” in the area of Squankum Road and East Kennedy Boulevard, NBC reported.

Sources told The Lakewood Scoop that the patient, a Neptune resident, returned from Africa within the last month and was hospitalized in Lakewood overnight after vomiting. He also had a fever and went partially limp, the sources told the website.

A Lakewood police officer and EMS officials were in direct contact with the patient, The Lakewood Scoop reported, and police shut down the area around Coventry Square in order to prevent exposure to others.

The patient is being tested, the Center Disease Control was called in to investigate and everyone was in contact with the patient are being monitored, the website reported.

It could take a day or two for authorities to be able to determine if the patient’s symptoms are in fact due to Ebola.

Source: http://www.gistplanet.net/2015/07/investigation-ongoing-about-ebola-case-in-lakewood-details-here.html

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