The results of the first analysis performed on a patient from Tenerife, who has been admitted since this Thursday to the Nuestra Señora de Candelaria University Hospital, have tested negative for the Ebola virus. The tests have been carried out at the Carlos III Health Institute in Madrid and have yielded a result of malaria, so he is already being given the established treatment for it, as reported by the Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands.
From this moment on, the Ministry reminds that it is necessary to wait three days for the second analytical test to be carried out to confirm the result obtained this Friday, as established by the established protocols. Samples from this second test will be taken next Monday and sent to the Carlos III Health Institute. According to the protocols, this Institute has 24 hours from receipt of the sample to give the results.
Until the definitive tests are known, the patient will remain isolated in the Nuestra Señora de Candelaria University Hospital. In addition, the two people who live with him and who remain under preventive observation in this hospital in Tenerife will remain in the same situation until the final results are known.
The Ministry of Health activated the hospital admission protocol this Thursday after a man, who had left Sierra Leone on the 8th and arrived in Tenerife on the 12th, reported that he had 37.7 degrees of fever. However, the first analysis has ruled out that he has the Ebola virus.
The patient was part of the Spanish Red Cross team, which is in charge of the Ebola treatment center in Kenema, Sierra Leone, according to La Provincia.