Patient isolated at Massachusetts clinic in US after displaying Ebola symptoms - newspaper

Chief Quality Officer Ken Sands speaks to reporters outside the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, where a patient displaying possible symptoms of Ebola was transported on Oct 12, 2014. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Chief Quality Officer Ken Sands speaks to reporters outside the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, where a patient displaying possible symptoms of Ebola was transported on Oct 12, 2014. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

BOSTON (REUTERS) - A medical clinic in Braintree, Massachusetts, near Boston was evacuated and a patient has been isolated because of his recent travel to West Africa and medical symptoms, the Boston Globe reported on Sunday.

"Ebola protocol is in place," the Globe quoted Braintree fire official Joe Zanca as saying.

The clinic was the Harvard Vanguard Medical Centre, the newspaper said.

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