Dr. Joss Reimer, chief public officer of health, says the patient was tested as a precaution after they had symptoms consistent with the disease ravaging the Democratic Republic of Congo.

While Canada is monitoring a severe Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda, the federal health authority says it is not implementing a travel ban or actively testing travellers.

The World Health Organization says there are almost 600 suspected cases and 139 suspected deaths from a rare type of Ebola, though the scale of the epidemic could be much