Spanish health authorities said on Wednesday that another person being monitored in Madrid for Ebola had tested negative for the disease.
The man, a Spaniard who had travelled from Nigeria, was one of several people hospitalised after authorities confirmed on Monday that a Spanish nurse had caught the disease in Madrid.
A second nurse was also cleared of Ebola. A third nursing assistant was hospitalised late on Tuesday for monitoring, a source at La Paz hospital said – bringing the number of people examined in hospital for Ebola to five, two of whom tested negative.