Here is just one of the reports that the Ebola test was negative. There were two tests done, both got negative results.
Here is a list of results from a search on this subject, and contains even more articles on this, stating the tests were negative.
The reason for the HAZMAT team was explained in one of the articles. It was because of procedures developed after the FIRST FEW CASES that caused such a PANIC, that any soldier returning from Africa, who becomes ill or dies, a HAZMAT TEAM is sent, just in case.
WHICH is exactly why the initial PANIC (or as I would call it a necessary level of awareness of the problem) was a GOOD THING.
It is better to have the HAZMAT TEAM there, and not be needed than to not have them there, and need them. Ebola is not something to be taken a chance with.
The amazing thing to me was smart people here actually asking WHY they would send in Hazmat if he didn’t die of Ebola — as if the first responders would know definitively how he died before they even got there to look him over.
It is like we read a story about a fire company going to a house and finding no fire, and people posting “why did they send a fire company if the house wasn’t on fire”, and arguing that the house must have been burning or else they wouldn’t have sent the fire company to investigate.