CAIRO
By Hagar al-Dosoki
An Egyptian national who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone two months ago has now tested negative for the virus, Egypt's Health Ministry said Wednesday.
The man, the ministry said, had already been discharged from hospital in Cairo.
"We reiterate our confirmation that Egypt is free of Ebola," the Health Ministry said in a statement.
The man, whose name was not given by the ministry, arrived in Cairo from Sierra Leone on Thursday and was immediately quarantined at a fever hospital.
The Health Ministry had approved his return from Sierra Leone after two samples taken from him in Sierra Leone had tested negative for the virus.
The Health Ministry in Sierra Leone, for its part, had said the Egyptian national no longer carried the disease.
Ebola, a tropical fever that first appeared in 1976 in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, can be transmitted to humans from wild animals.
It can also reportedly spread through contact with the body fluids of infected persons or of those who have died of the virus.
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