Airline passenger not infected with Ebola

The passenger on a Brussels Airlines flight that was taken to a Brussels hospital on her arrival at Zaventem Airport admid fears that she may have been suffering from Ebola has been given the all clear. The woman was taken to a special unit at the Sint-Pieters Hospital in Brussels where she underwent tests carried out by experts from the Institute of Tropical Medicine.

In a press statement released on Monday evening the Federal Health Ministry said that the test had shown no evidence that the woman is infected with the Ebola virus.

The woman was a passenger on a Brussels Airlines flight from Freetown in Sierra Leone. She had become unwell on board the plane and had vomited. She was isolated from the other passengers and on her arrival at Zaventem Airport was taken to an isolation unit at the Sint-Pieters Hospital for tests.

The results of the tests were released by the Institute for tropical medicine at around 9pm on Monday.

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