At 2 p.m. MDT July 29, Routt County Sheriff's Office quarantined a Greyhound bus traveling through Steamboat Springs, Colo., due an alleged Ebola virus case, according to Steamboat Pilot & Today.
Officials thought one of the bus passengers had contact with a Denver Health patient who was being tested for the virus, according to Steamboat Springs Police Department Capt. Jerry Stabile. Police held the bus for about 15 minutes before determining it was not the bus with the passenger on it.
The patient at Denver Health, who became sick after returning from the Congo and exhibited key symptoms of the virus, tested negative for the Ebola virus.
Denver Health isolated the patient along with the three emergency medics that brought him to the hospital.
Denver Health is one of 10 U.S. hospitals cleared by the CDC to treat people suspected of having Ebola.
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