WATCH: The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the nearly 50 people who had some degree of contact with the Ebola patient in Texas have been located and tested.
A patient at a Toronto hospital has tested negative for Ebola.
“The result is negative which means that the Ebola isolation protocol is discontinued,” said Gillian Howard, VP of public affairs for the University Health Network, in a statement released late Friday night.
“This means that the patient will not be isolated and staff caring for the patient will not be using special personal protective equipment for Ebola while providing care.
“No further information about this patient will be released.”
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UHN confirmed on October 2 that a person who had recently traveled to West Africa was admitted to one of its four hospitals with a fever, but wouldn’t say which hospital or what West African country.
The announcement comes two days after a patient in Dallas, Tx., was diagnosed with the first case of Ebola in the United States. Health officials there say the patient may have had contact with up to 100 people.
On Wednesday, the World Health Organization released its latest figures regarding the Ebola outbreak: At least 7,178 people have been infected with the virus; nearly 3,338 have died.
– With files from Andrew Russell
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