Montreal patient being tested for Ebola virus
The director of infectious diseases at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital says the man recently returned from Guinea, one of the West African countries hit by an outbreak of the virus.
Dr. Karl Weiss says test samples have been sent to the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg.
Weiss says the hospital has followed a strict protocol and other patients aren't at risk.
Earlier this month a patient at a hospital in Brampton, Ont. was also placed in isolation over fear the person had contracted the virus, but ended up testing negative.
More than 1,400 people have died so far in the largest Ebola outbreak on record.
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