Ohio Ebola Hoax Vexes First Responders

On 16 October 2014, 911 operators in Columbus, Ohio, received a call from a woman who reported her sister exhibited symptoms of Ebola. Emergency dispatchers asked whether the symptomatic subject of the call had recently traveled to Ebola-afflicted regions, and the caller answered in the affirmative.

Local news sources published a brief excerpt from the 911 call in which the woman allegedly described her sister's alarmingly high fever and relevant recent travel history:

"Was the person over in Africa recently in the last 21 days?"

"Yes, she was."