--- --- # Dog Belonging to Nurse With Ebola Tests Negative for the Virus by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Oct 22, 2014 4:40 PM UTC by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Oct 22, 2014 4:40 PM UTC Bentley, a dog belonging to Dallas nurse and Ebola patient Nina Pham, has tested negative for the virus, the City of Dallas [said](https://twitter.com/JasonWhitely/status/524945170232778752/photo/1) Wednesday. The dog was tested amid fears that he might have contracted Ebola from his owner, who was infected at the Dallas hospital where she cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, the only person to die of Ebola in the United States. Duncan died Oct. 8 at Dallas’ Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. > [](https://twitter.com/JasonWhitely/status/524945170232778752) Bentley’s samples were sent to a lab on Monday and the results show that he tested negative for the virus. The dog is being isolated and more specimens will be conducted again at the end of a 21-quarantine period. Pham is in the care of the National Institutes of Health in Maryland. \[[_Jason Whitely_](https://twitter.com/JasonWhitely/status/524945170232778752)\] Dog of Nurse Infected With Ebola Has Tested Negative For the Disease ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3531798/ebola-dog-bentley/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3531798/ebola-dog-bentley/"},"headline":"Dog Belonging to Nurse With Ebola Tests Negative for the Virus","datePublished":"2014-10-22T16:40:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:56:54.947Z","description":"Nina Pham's dog will be tested again at the end of a 21-day quarantine","url":"https://time.com/3531798/ebola-dog-bentley/","keywords":["ebola"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"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/3531798/ebola-dog-bentley/","name":"Dog Belonging to Nurse With Ebola Tests Negative for the Virus"}}]}] ```