The government of Côte d'Ivoire has informed the World Health Organization (WHO) that a second laboratory has tested samples taken from a suspected Ebola patient and found no evidence of the virus.

 The tests conducted by the Pasteur Institute in Lyon, France, come after earlier tests conducted by the Pasteur Institute in Côte d'Ivoire, which led authorities there to declare the first case of Ebola since 1994.

With the new results obtained by the laboratory in Lyon, WHO believes that the patient did not have Ebola virus disease and further analysis of the cause of her illness is underway.

Adolphus Mawolo reports.