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 "Laboratory tests did not confirm Ebola," he told Czech Radio,
confirming earlier media reports. "There is a suspicion of malaria
and further checks need to be done. The essential thing is that it
is not Ebola."
The 56-year-old Czech businessman who had recently traveled in
Liberia was put in isolation at a Prague hospital on Thursday with
signs of the virus, which has killed nearly 4,000 people in West
Africa since March in the largest outbreak on record.
Fears that the Ebola outbreak will spread globally rose on Thursday
as the health of an infected Spanish nurse deteriorated and a
British man who died in Macedonia was being tested for the virus.
(Reporting by Jason Hovet and Jan Strouhal; Editing by Dominic
Evans)
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