Sick Air Force officer back from Africa being monitored at Fort Bliss - News - Stripes: An Air Force officer is being monitored at William Beaumont Army Medical Center at Fort Bliss, Texas, after returning sick on Tuesday from deployment to a mission fighting Ebola in West Africa, military officials said.
But the airman, a major who is not being identified, did not have an elevated temperature and has symptoms that medical personnel say are more in line with food poisoning or stomach flu, Fort Bliss spokesman Lt. Col. Lee Peters said.
A Defense official speaking on the condition of anonymity said the servicemember, who arrived on a planeload of 68 troops returning from Africa, was ill when he boarded the plane, but had been tested and found not to have Ebola before leaving.
Officials said the airman had had no contact with potentially infected locals. Since the operation began in September, military leaders have said U.S. troops are deploying primarily to help with command and control and logistical matters, and would not be involved in treating patients.
