SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – A Brazilian man who developed pains and a fever just days after returning from Guinea has tested negative for the deadly Ebola virus but does have malaria, Brazil’s healthy ministry said on Thursday.
If a second Ebola test comes back negative, the 46-year-old man will no longer need to be isolated and the people he was in contact with will stop being monitored.
Guinea is one of three impoverished West African countries, along with Liberia and Sierra Leone, that have suffered with the most deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus in recent years. A few cases were also registered in the United States and Europe.
Sierra Leone and Liberia have been declared Ebola-free while a handful of cases remain in Guinea.
