(Reuters) - Health officials in Southern California are monitoring and assessing a "low-risk" traveler for Ebola after the person developed a fever and showed signs of illness during a screening for the disease, authorities have said. Officials did not give details about the individual but said the person was taken on Sunday to an undisclosed hospital for observation, close monitoring, testing "and implementation of full infection control measures." "While this is a low-risk situation and highly unlikely to be Ebola, after conferring with the California Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control, a decision was made to take all precautionary measures," the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department said in a statement. Monday is the one-year anniversary of the first confirmed case of an Ebola outbreak in West Africa. March 23, 2015 at 01:13PM
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