Medical tests show no one has been infected with the Ebola virus in Sweden



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The Swedish authorities announced Friday that medical tests on a person suspected of having been infected with Ebola and treated at the Uppsala University Hospital proved that he had not contracted the virus. The patient, who was not identified, was taken to the North Stockholm Hospital after being initially transferred to the smaller Incubing Hospital.

Earlier, the hospital's medical director said that the young man had been in Burundi for about three weeks and had symptoms of haemorrhagic fever.

Local authorities said that the state of the man had improved during the day and that even though tests had excluded diseases such as Marburg virus and dengue, d & # 39; Other tests were needed to determine the nature of the disease.

The Ebola virus is not known in Burundi, but is bordering on the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is fighting an epidemic of the virus that killed six months more than 356 out of 585 people.

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