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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Swedish medical examinations conducted on a person suspected of having been infected with the Ebola virus and treated at the Uppsala University Hospital have proved that it does not happen. was not infected with the virus, the Swedish authorities announced Friday.
The patient, who was not identified, was taken to the North Stockholm Hospital after being initially transferred to the smaller Incubing Hospital.
The hospital's medical director had previously indicated 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.
Prepared by Mustafa Saleh for publication in Arabic – Edit Mohamed Yamani
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