A Colorado patient tested negative for Ebola after showing symptoms of the disease.
The unidentified patient was being monitored at a Loveland, Colo., hospital, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
The patient showed signs of the disease after returning from an Ebola-affected country, according to several news reports.
U.S. cases of Ebola have lessened as the outbreak has started to recede in West Africa. Since the outbreak occurred last year, there has been one death and four confirmed cases in the U.S.
The disease has only transmitted in the U.S. twice, as two Dallas nurses contracted it after treating a patient who returned from West Africa. The patient, Eric Duncan, later died from the disease.
There is one patient being treated for Ebola at the National Institutes of Health’s Bethesda, Md., facility. The unidentified patient was doing volunteer work in Sierra Leone.
Health officials were monitoring 15 people who came into contact with the patient, but five of those people were found to not have the disease.
