Man taken from resort tests negative for Ebola PATIENT WITH AFRICA LINKS CLEARED AFTER HOSPITAL TESTS

AMAN in Llandudno who was admitted to hospital in Liverpool amid fears he may have contracted the deadly Ebola virus, has tested negative for the disease.

The man, who has a history of travel to west Africa, was admitted to the Royal Liverpool Hospital for tests after he became unwell last Friday.

But later, a Public Health England spokeswoman confirmed the man, who is not thought to be from North Wales, had tested negative result for the virus.

Dr Deborah Turbitt, Public Health England’s Ebola national incident director, said: “Between August last year and early June, 240 individuals with relevant symptoms and a travel history were tested for Ebola in the UK.

“The risk of Ebola to the general public in the UK remains very low.”

On Friday, police and ambulance activity was spotted around the waterfront in Llandudno, where there were crowds gathered to look at the steamer MV Balmoral.

Police and medics swooped on an alleyway in Vardre Lane to contain the man. The incident happened at around 11.30am, when men in protective suits put the man into an ambulance and sped him away to Liverpool for his condition to be investigated.

Eyewitnesses told the Daily Post that three police cars blocked Vardre Lane at Upper Mostyn Street, as well as Church Walks and Court Street.

Dr Turbitt continued: “Ebola can only be transmitted by direct contact with the blood or bodily fluids of an infected person.

“We have well established and practiced infection control procedures for dealing with cases of imported infectious disease and our systems have demonstrated that the UK is able to manage a case of Ebola when identified.”

The Royal Liverpool Hospital was one of four UK hospitals placed on Ebola standby last year amid growing concerns the disease could reach the UK after it tore through the African nations of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.

The World Health Organisation says Ebola has killed more than 10,000 people in Africa since 2013.