A man who died in Ireland shortly after returning from Sierra
Leone has tested negative for the Ebola virus, health officials said Friday.
The Health Service Executive had said Thursday the man’s
death was “a suspected case” of the tropical virus and quarantined his body
until tests could be carried out.
But it said in a statement on Friday that laboratory test
samples had proved negative for Ebola.
The man, Dessie Quinn, who was in his mid-40s, had returned
from working as an engineer in Sierra Leone, one of the countries worst
affected by the west African Ebola outbreak, his company KN Network Services
said.
KNNS said it had pulled all of its staff from Sierra Leone
as a precaution.
Local media reported that Quinn was receiving treatment for
malaria since his return to Ireland.
The HSE rejected media claims that Quinn’s family did not
know he was at the centre of an investigation into a suspected Ebola case.
“The HSE was in contact with some family members from the
outset of the tragic situation,” it said.
Bbc.
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