A patient in Sweden is feared to have been struck down with Ebola, health officials in the country have warned.

The patient, who local reports suggest is a 'younger man', is currently in isolation at the University Hospital in Uppsala.

Doctors treating the man, whose symptoms including blood in his vomit and stools, say he is awake and his blood pressure is normal.

Test results expected tonight will confirm if he does have Ebola - considered one of the most lethal pathogens in existence.

If the unnamed patient does have it, he would be the fifth person to have ever been diagnosed with the virus on European soil, it is believed.

Ebola killed 11,000 people and ravaged West Africa during an epidemic between 2014-15. One case was detected in Spain, Italy and the UK, respectively.

Mikael Köhler, head doctor at Region Uppsala, told UNT how the patient visited a hospital in Enköping this morning. Its emergency room has since been closed (pictured)

Officials at Region Uppsala - the local health body - have today admitted it is 'quite possible' the patient could have another disease.

Mikael Köhler, head doctor at Region Uppsala, told UNT how the patient visited a hospital in Enköping this morning.

He revealed how the patient had blood in their vomit, warning that it can be a symptom of Ebola.

Dr Köhler added: 'The patient came home from a trip to, among other places, Burundi, in central Africa, three weeks ago.

'But they have not, as far as we are aware, visited any areas where there is active Ebola contagion.'

There is an ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, deemed the second biggest ever in history.

The patient has been moved to Uppsala University Hospital, where patients seeking emergency help in Enköping are being advised to visit (pictured, the hospital in Enköping)

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The Swedish man has been moved to Uppsala University Hospital, where patients seeking emergency treatment in Enköping are being advised to visit.

In a statement regarding the new suspected case, officials said: 'The emergency room at the hospital is therefore currently closed.'

They added that the patient is 'isolated' and staff who dealt with them have been 'taken care of'.

Latest figures from the DRC reveal 368 people have died since the outbreak began ripping through the country last August.

It comes after a healthcare worker in the US was quarantined last month amid fears they may have the virus after returning home from the African nation.

The medic, who was not originally showing any signs of Ebola, is expected to be in isolation at a hospital in Nebraska for another week.

The haemorrhagic fever spread rapidly during an epidemic in 2014, with cases reported in 10 countries - including eight in the US.

Ebola killed 11,000 people and ravaged West Africa during an epidemic between 2014-15. One case was detected in Spain, Italy and the UK, respectively

Many aid agencies volunteered to help stop it spreading, including British nurse Pauline Cafferkey, who was left critically ill by the deadly disease.

She became the first victim of the epidemic to be diagnosed on British soil and spent almost a month in an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in north-west London.

Ms Cafferkey was readmitted to hospitals with Ebola complications twice in 2016.

A Spanish healthcare worker became the first person to catch Ebola outside of Africa in October 2014, after caring for a patient repatriated from Sierra Leone. She recovered after a month-long stay in hospital.

The virus was then detected on Italian soil in May, when a healthcare worker flew back to Rome after volunteering in Sierra Leone. He did not display symptoms for three days and was allowed home from hospital the following month.

Ebola was first recorded on European soil in 1976, when a former lab technician accidentally pricked his finger with an Ebola sample.

Geoffrey Platt revealed he spent 40 days in quarantine after the incident, while he was working at the Microbiological Research Establishment at Porton Down in Wiltshire.