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Sunnybrook patient tests negative for Ebola

Lab tests say the woman admitted to Toronto's Sunnybrook hospital on Wednesday morning does not have Ebola.

Lab tests say the woman admitted to Toronto'sSunnybrook hospital on Wednesday morning does not have Ebola.

Sunnybrook said via Twitter that tests for the deadly, infectious disease havecome back negative.

Doctors ordered the tests after the unidentified woman came in complaining of fever and nausea. Shehadrecently travelled to West Africa where an Ebola outbreak has claimed more than 10,000 livessince 2013.

Canada has never had an Ebola case diagnosed within its borders.

A mother and child weretreated for Ebola-likesymptoms last month at a London, Ont., hospital, butpreliminary blood tests for the disease came back negative.

A number of other people suspected of having the disease have been tested, and ruled out, in various parts of Canada during the ongoing outbreak in West Africa.

With files from Canadian Press