Nigerian with Ebola symptoms quarantined in Hong Kong

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• As Toronto man tests negative

A Nigerian man has been quarantined in Hong Kong after showing symptoms of the deadly Ebola virus, even as another man isolated in a Toronto, Canada hospital has been given a clean bill of health from the virus.
The Hong Kong’s Centre for Health Protection said on Sunday that a 31-year-old man from Nigeria is being tested for the virus at Princess Margaret Hospital.
If confirmed, it will be the first case of the disease in Asia.
Hong Kong’s RTHK added that the 31-year-old Nigerian man showed symptoms of vomiting and diarrhoea after arriving in Hong Kong on August 7.
He was sent to Queen Elizabeth Hospital from ChungKing Mansions in Hong Kong’s Kowloon area, before being transferred to Princess Margaret Hospital.

The result of his blood test is expected in several hours.
Meanwhile, the patient with flu-like symptoms who recently visited Nigeria and was put into isolation at an Ontario hospital has tested negative for the deadly Ebola virus.
Ontario’s Minister of Health and Long-Term Care Eric Hoskins confirmed that the man, who recently travelled to Canada from West Africa, where the outbreak has prompted states of emergency, is now “doing well” and anticipated to have a “full and speedy recovery.”
“I can now confirm a recent case that underwent testing at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg was found to test negative for Ebola virus disease,” Hoskins said in a release, posted to the Ontario ministry’s website.
The man had complained of fever, headache, muscle pain and malaise.
Brampton Civic Hospital had instituted heightened infection-control procedures after the patient was admitted.
Hoskins said health professionals responded appropriately and showed “our system worked as it should.”
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