WORCESTER (
MyFoxBoston.com) -- UMass Memorial Medical Center doctors announced this evening that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has informed them that the laboratory testing for Holden's Dr. Richard Sacra is negative for Ebola virus. UMass Memorial reports they will be removing Dr. Sacra from isolation, and his physicians will continue routine care for an upper respiratory tract infection.
On Saturday, Sacra went to a Boston-area hospital before being transferred to UMass Memorial. He had been suffering from a persistent cough and low-grade fever. Dr. Robert Finberg, the chair of medicine at UMass Memorial Medical Center, had stressed earlier at a press conference that Sacra's symptoms did not match up with the Ebola virus.
Sacra was the third American to be diagnosed with Ebola, contracting the disease while helping others in Liberia. He was treated at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha where he was declared free of the virus. He was discharged on Sept. 25 after spending three weeks in an isolation unit and passing three CDC tests to prove he had no trace of the illness.
