--- title: Ebola: Woman's Remains in New York Test Negative for Virus description: The remains of a woman in New York who died while under observation for potential Ebola exposure have tested negative for the virus canonical: https://time.com/3593818/ebola-new-york-city-test-negative/ author: Rishi Iyengar article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-19T04:29:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T23:44:18.000Z article:section: Health og:title: Woman's Remains in New York Test Negative for Ebola og:description: She had arrived from Guinea about three weeks earlier og:url: https://time.com/3593818/ebola-new-york-city-test-negative/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb22483991b63fa55/6987696e2dce015b2f9dbd9a/rtr4dxvo.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Nurses from the New York State Nurses Association protest for improved Ebola safeguards, part of a national day of action, in New York og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Woman's Remains in New York Test Negative for Ebola twitter:description: She had arrived from Guinea about three weeks earlier twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb22483991b63fa55/6987696e2dce015b2f9dbd9a/rtr4dxvo.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Woman's Remains in New York Test Negative for Ebola by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Updated: Dec 13, 2023 11:44 PM UTCPublished: Nov 19, 2014 4:29 AM UTC  Nurses from the New York State Nurses Association protest for improved Ebola safeguards, part of a national day of action, in New York City November 12, 2014. Nurses from the New York State Nurses Association protest for improved Ebola safeguards, part of a national day of action, in New York City November 12, 2014.© Mike Segar—Reuters by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Updated: Dec 13, 2023 11:44 PM UTCPublished: Nov 19, 2014 4:29 AM UTC The remains of a woman in New York who died while under observation for potential Ebola exposure have tested negative for the virus, health officials [said](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/20/nyregion/ebola-test-is-negative-on-woman-who-died-in-new-york.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes) Wednesday. The woman arrived from Guinea, one of the three nations hit hardest in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, nearly three weeks ago and was being monitored out of “an abundance of caution” because her trip fell within the virus’ 21-day incubation period, the New York _Times_ reports. She had shown no symptoms for the disease. She was one of some 300 people being monitored by New York City as a potential case. The city’s sole diagnosed case to date, Dr. Craig Spencer, was successfully treated and released. \[[_NYT_](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/20/nyregion/ebola-test-is-negative-on-woman-who-died-in-new-york.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3593818/ebola-new-york-city-test-negative/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3593818/ebola-new-york-city-test-negative/"},"headline":"Woman's Remains in New York Test Negative for Ebola","datePublished":"2014-11-19T04:29:20.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T23:44:18.000Z","description":"She had arrived from Guinea about three weeks earlier","url":"https://time.com/3593818/ebola-new-york-city-test-negative/","keywords":["ebola","Death","New York City","Sierra Leone","Infectious Disease","Guinea","Liberia"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb22483991b63fa55/6987696e2dce015b2f9dbd9a/rtr4dxvo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rishi Iyengar","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb22483991b63fa55/6987696e2dce015b2f9dbd9a/rtr4dxvo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Nurses from the New York State Nurses Association protest for improved Ebola safeguards, part of a national day of action, in New York","caption":"Nurses from the New York State Nurses Association protest for improved Ebola safeguards, part of a national day of action, in New York","creditText":"© Mike Segar—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/3593818/ebola-new-york-city-test-negative/","name":"Woman's Remains in New York Test Negative for Ebola"}}]}] ```