Credit: Reuters/Fabian Bimmer
A volunteer of the German army Bundeswehr, wearing a protective suit, is disinfected by a colleague during an Ebola training session at the Marseille barracks in Appen, October 23, 2014.
Preliminary test results were expected in the next 12 hours, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said in a statement.
The patient being treated at Bellevue Hospital is a healthcare worker who returned to the United States within the past 21 days from one of the three African countries facing the Ebola outbreak, it said.
(Editing By Ellen Wulfhorst; Editing by Sandra Maler)
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