A patient in isolation at a Montreal hospital has tested negative for the Ebola virus, health officials have confirmed.

Blood samples tested at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg came back negative for Ebola, the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital said in a statement released late Saturday afternoon.

"The results tell us that the patient is not suffering from Ebola. This is good news," Dr. Karl Weiss, the hospital's director of infectious diseases, said in the French-language statement.

The patient had recently returned to Montreal after visiting Guinea, one of the West African countries hardest-hit by an Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 1,400 people. He was admitted to hospital on Friday with symptoms consistent with the early stages of Ebola.

Ebola’s early symptoms resemble many other more common, less harmful diseases, including influenza.

Weiss told The Canadian Press he is satisfied with the hospital’s response to the situation.

“The patient came to the hospital complaining of fever and other symptoms, and because of that, we had no choice but to start putting our protocol in place and start implementing all measures,” Weiss told the Canadian Press on Saturday.

There has never been a confirmed case of Ebola in Canada.

This is the second suspected Ebola case to come back with negative test results. Earlier this month, a patient at a hospital in Brampton, Ont. was put into isolation with a suspected Ebola case after falling sick following a flight home from Nigeria. That patient’s test results also came back negative.

The Public Health Agency of Canada has advised Canadians against all non-essential travel to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. It has also warned of a small number of cases in Lagos, Nigeria.

The virus is transmitted from person-to-person through direct contact with bodily fluids like blood, sweat and vomit.