"Tests have now shown that the patient is malaria negative and Ebola is considered unlikely. Further testing is being done as a precaution, as is usual practice in these circumstances," the statement published on the hospital's website says.
The United Kingdom saw its first Ebola case in December 2014, when a Scottish woman who worked in Sierra Leone as a nurse tested positive for the virus after returning from West Africa to her home in Glasgow.
Later in December, another Scottish patient was tested for Ebola, though it turned out negative.
Ebola is a deadly disease that spreads through direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person or though contact with contaminated clothing or possessions. Since the beginning of outbreak in West Africa in late 2013, it has claimed the lives of 8,429 people, according to the most recent Ebola Situation Report published by the World Health Organization (WHO).
