Spanish ministry of health sources said a Nigerian man at the centre of an Ebola health scare on the Spanish Costas, which contains an estimated British population of more than 82,000, tested negative for the virus and has been given the all-clear.
He went down with vomiting, hemorrhaging and a high temperature - all symptoms of the disease - in Alicante, the capital of the Costa Blanca on the south-east coast, just a few days after arriving in Spain.
But the country's state run national newsagency EFE quoted Ministry of Health sources as saying that tests carried out last night had all proved negative and that the unnamed man, who is in his 30s, was not a victim of the dreaded epidemic affecting several countries in West Africa.
He was placed in isolation at the San Juan hospital on Saturday evening and the results of the tests came through a little less than 24 hours later.
Hospital bosses activated the Ebola protocol after he complained of the flu-like symptoms associated with the onset of the virus and was seen by doctors. Paramedics wearing protective suits and masks transferred him from Alicante General Hospital to nearby San Juan.
The current epidemic began in Guinea in February and has since spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres has said it believes the outbreak will take at least six months to bring under control.
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