“A sample has also been sent to a German laboratory for further testing.”
Al-Zahrani, a businessman in his 40s, died at King Fahd Hospital, where he was admitted on Monday night after showing symptoms of viral hemorrhagic fever.
Health Ministry spokesman Khalid Mirghalani confirmed the report after tests had been conducted at the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, which has a special laboratory for testing the most dangerous of microbes. “Tests revealed that Ebola virus was not the cause of this patient’s illness,” he said.