Spanish health worker under observation tests negative for Ebola


  • World
  • Wednesday, 08 Oct 2014

MADRID (Reuters) - One of four people being monitored in hospital for Ebola in Spain has tested negative for the disease, a Spanish health source told Reuters, after the first known case of a contagion outside of Africa was confirmed in Madrid on Monday.

The person cleared in the tests is a female health worker, who had diarrhoea but no fever, and who was hospitalised along with three others as Spain tries to stem the spread of Ebola.

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