FREEPORT, Maine – A Maine middle school student touched off a bit of panic when she told another student her father was being tested for Ebola.

The Portland Press Herald reports:

A Freeport Middle School student was isolated from classmates Wednesday after telling another student that her father was being tested for the deadly Ebola virus – a statement that school officials quickly dispelled.

The school also sent a letter to parents to quell rumors and to warn that such false reports can have consequences.

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According to a letter sent home to parents, the girl said her father was being tested because of a rash.

The high schooler whom she told then told her parents, who contacted the middle school.

School administrators “acted as if the student had been exposed” to the virus and separated her from others while contacting her parents to investigate the report, according to the letter from middle school Principal Ray Grogan.

After talking with the student, school officials said in the letter there was no public health concern, the student’s father had no symptoms of Ebola and wasn’t being tested for the virus, according to WMTW.

“The student’s father has no symptoms of Ebola, nor is he being tested for the virus,” Grogan said in the email to parents.

“I wanted the CDC to sign off that they were comfortable,” the principal tells the Bangor Daily News.

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“Obviously, they were completely comfortable [that no health risk existed].”

The school follow the “general protocol,” as for any emergency, such as a bomb threat.