--- title: 5-Year-Old Tests Positive for Ebola in NY description: The child is being held at the same hospital as Doctors Without Borders physician Dr. Craig Spencer canonical: https://time.com/3541504/5-year-old-tests-negative-for-ebola-in-ny/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-27T22:03:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T11:02:00.052Z article:section: Health og:title: 5-Year-Old Tests Positive for Ebola in NY og:description: The child is being held at the same hospital as Doctors Without Borders physician Dr. Craig Spencer og:url: https://time.com/3541504/5-year-old-tests-negative-for-ebola-in-ny/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 5-Year-Old Tests Positive for Ebola in NY twitter:description: The child is being held at the same hospital as Doctors Without Borders physician Dr. Craig Spencer twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 5-Year-Old Tests Negative for Ebola in NYC by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Oct 27, 2014 10:03 PM UTC by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Oct 27, 2014 10:03 PM UTC A five-year-old boy put in isolation at Bellevue Hospital in New York City Monday has tested negative for Ebola. The child was taken to the hospital by specialists in personal protective equipment on Sunday evening to undergo monitoring for Ebola, and did not have a fever at that time. On Monday morning, the child developed a fever and the city decided to conduct a test for Ebola. The children had been in one of the three Ebola-affected countries within the last 21 days. “Out of an abundance of caution, further negative Ebola tests are required on subsequent days to ensure that the patient is cleared,” the New York City health department said in a statement. “The patient will also be tested for common respiratory viruses. The patient will remain in isolation until all test results have returned.” The child is being held at the same hospital as Doctors Without Borders physician Dr. Craig Spencer. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3541504/5-year-old-tests-negative-for-ebola-in-ny/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3541504/5-year-old-tests-negative-for-ebola-in-ny/"},"headline":"5-Year-Old Tests Negative for Ebola in NYC","datePublished":"2014-10-27T22:03:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:02:00.052Z","description":"The child is being held at the same hospital as Doctors Without Borders physician Dr. Craig Spencer","url":"https://time.com/3541504/5-year-old-tests-negative-for-ebola-in-ny/","keywords":["ebola","Ebola outbreak","child","Quarantine"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/ebola/","name":"ebola"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3541504/5-year-old-tests-negative-for-ebola-in-ny/","name":"5-Year-Old Tests Negative for Ebola in NYC"}}]}] ```