Christie: Ill Liberian screened at Newark has no Ebola symptoms

An ill traveler from Liberia who was pulled aside at Newark Airport Tuesday night because of concerns he might have contracted Ebola is "asymptomatic" and will likely be released from a New Jersey hospital where he had been taken, Gov. Chris Christie said Wednesday.

"There's no indication at this point that he's been infected with the virus," Christie said in remarks at Hackensack University Medical Center, NJ.com reports.

"He's asymptomatic," he said. "We anticipate that the patient and his wife will be released (after meeting with officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)."

The passenger had arrived at Newark Liberty Airport from Brussels, the first leg on a flight from Brussels, NBC 4 New York reports.

The passenger, who was traveling with his wife, had been singled out for screening because of his recent travel history and was found to have a fever. He was then taken to the medical center for further evaluation.

CDC spokeswoman Carol Crawford said in a statement that the man, who was not named, was among screened passengers arriving from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea and "identified as reporting symptoms or having a potential exposure to Ebola."

The incident on the eve of Wednesday's new screening procedure requiring people whose trip began in Guinea, Liberia or Sierra Leone to fly into one of the five U.S. airports performing fever checks for Ebola.

These are JFK, Newark Liberty, Washington's Dulles, Chicago's O'Hare and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta airports.

In Chicago, two passengers who took ill while flying into O'Hare from Liberia were tested, but reportedly showed no evidence of the deadly disease, according to CBS Chicago.

One of the passengers, a child, reportedly vomited during the flight and was quarantined at University of Chicago Medical Center, but was found to have no fever and no other Ebola symptoms.

A separate adult passenger, also traveling from Liberia, reported nausea and diarrhea, and was taken to Rush University Medical Center for evaluation, according to CBS Chicago.