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2 of 4 new Ebola suspects in Spain test negative

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Authorities say two of four new Ebola suspects admitted to hospitals in Spain have tested negative in a first round of tests.

The government's Ebola monitoring committee said on its official Twitter account today that the two were a person who arrived on an Air France jet that was isolated at Madrid's airport yesterday and a person who traveled in the same ambulance used to hospitalize infected Spanish nursing assistant Teresa Romero earlier this month. Both had developed fevers. They will be tested a second time within 72 hours.

Two others, a missionary who came down with a fever after returning from Liberia and a Red Cross health worker who recently worked with Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, were also to be tested.

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First Published: Oct 17 2014 | 1:56 PM IST

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