A man admitted to Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital with a fever after returning from Liberia has tested negative for Ebola.
According to a statement, the 37-year-old man also tested negative for Malaria, and is currently in a stable condition.
He had apparently been working as a health and safety officer in a mining operation in Liberia.
When he returned to Johannesburg, he was healthy but on August 16 he went to his general practitioner complaining of a high fever.
"Following on the protocols issued to all private and public practitioners and health facilities, the doctor contacted the National Institute for Communicable Diseases [NICD] to discuss the patient," Department spokesman Joe Maila said.
Fortunately he tested negative for the virus.
"We are busy conducting further tests for other infections and continue with our appropriate management of the patient," Maila said in a statement.
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