A patient being treated for flu-like symptoms at Sunnybrook hospital has tested negative for Ebola, according to a statement on the hospital’s website.

The test results came from the Public Health Ontario Laboratory on Wednesday night.

The patient was brought in Wednesday morning, after being transferred from another Toronto hospital, according to Dr. Andrew Simor, a Sunnybrook doctor who recently returned from Sierra Leone, where he helped train survivors of the disease in infection prevention.

Simor said the patient, who travelled in West Africa, including Guinea, had been exhibiting non-specific flu symptoms, including fevers and chills, for around five days.

It is likely that the patient had been away from risk zones for more than 21 days — the incubation period for the deadly disease — but due to inconsistencies in the story, hospital staff decided to test for Ebola to be safe.

All precautions were taken, according to Marie Sanderson, a spokesperson for Sunnybrook.

Simor confirmed that hospital staff were following provincial directives in handling the situation, including restricting access to only the essential health-care providers.

Under the most recent directives from the Ministry of Health, a small number of hospitals have been selected to treat “suspect cases pending results,” Simor said. Sunnybrook is one of those hospitals.

The Ebola outbreak in western Africa infected about 24,000 people in the past year and has killed nearly 10,000. Symptoms include fever, severe headache, muscle pain and unexplained bleeding or bruising, among others.

With files from Diana Hall