A woman who was hospitalized in Calgary earlier this week with Ebola-like symptoms has tested negative for the deadly virus, officials have confirmed.
In a news release on Friday, Alberta Health Services said samples from Ebola tests ruled out the virus in the patient.
The woman arrived at to Peter Lougheed Centre late Wednesday night with Ebola-like symptoms.
After hospital officials noted her symptoms and recent travel history, she was transferred to a special infectious isolation unit at the South Health Campus.
Hospital officials had said that the risk of the patient having Ebola was "very low" because she had no known exposure to the disease.
Nevertheless, health workers continued to manage the patient as a potential Ebola case, although they believe it highly unlikely she is infected.
Samples from Ebola tests were sent to a lab in Edmonton.
Since the spring, Ebola has killed more than 5,600 people in West Africa, most of them in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
