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Nigerian In Hong Kong Tests Negative For Ebola by Graciia: 9:59am On Aug 11, 2014
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Hong Kong - A Nigerian man who was quarantined after he showed Ebola-like symptoms while travelling to Hong Kong has tested negative for the deadly virus.

The southern Chinese city government said in a statement late on Sunday that the man, 32, had "tested negative for Ebola virus upon preliminary laboratory testing".

"In the past one month... he had no contact history with sick persons or animals and did not visit health-care facilities. He is currently in stable condition," a government spokesperson said in the statement.

The man arrived in Hong Kong from Lagos, Nigeria's most populous city, via Dubai on Thursday and was hospitalised on Sunday after vomiting and having diarrhoea.

Concerns are growing over the potential spread of the disease which has claimed nearly 1 000 lives in west Africa this year.

Hong Kong, a densely populated city of some seven million people, is particularly alert to the spread of viruses after Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome killed almost 300 people eleven years ago.

On 30 July the Hong Kong government said it would quarantine as a precaution all people from Ebola infected areas who showed any symptom of the disease such as fever, vomiting or diarrhoea.

Last week a woman who showed Ebola-like symptoms after returning from a holiday in Kenya tested negative for the virus.

Nigeria along with Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia have been hardest hit by the latest epidemic, which the WHO has called the worst outbreak of its kind in four decades.

Nigeria - the most populous nation in Africa - confirmed two new cases Fon riday of the often fatal haemorrhagic disease, bringing the total number of infections to nine, including two deaths.

The World Health Organisation has declared the epidemic an international health emergency, as countries scramble to impose measures to prevent any spread of a contagion that has claimed almost 1 000 lives.
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