Bangkok, Sep 16 (IANS): A Dutchman suspected of having the Ebola virus disease has been cleared after blood tests returned negative, the health ministry said Tuesday.
Deputy Director General of the Disease Control Department Opas Karnkavinpong said lab technicians tested the blood of the traveller for the second time Monday and the results were negative, the Bangkok Post reported.
The 52-year-old patient was treated since Sep 10 after returning to Thailand from a business trip to Nigeria that morning.
Doctors also stopped monitoring 21 people who had been in contact with him.
The latest toll from the Ebola outbreak that was released last week by the World Health Organization (WHO) indicated that over 2,400 people had died out of the 4,784 confirmed cases.