A woman admitted to an Edinburgh hospital after returning from west Africa has tested negative for Ebola.
NHS Lothian said the patient was screened at the Western General on Thursday after reporting a raised temperature.
Earlier the health board said the test was being done as a precautionary measure and that the patient was being kept in isolation.
NHS Lothian later posted on Twitter that the test result was negative.
It said: "The patient admitted to the Regional Infectious Diseases Unit at the Western General Hospital yesterday has tested negative for Ebola.
"We have robust systems in place to manage patients with suspected infectious diseases and staff follow tested national guidelines."
The suspected Ebola case in Edinburgh came about 24 hours after Northampton General Hospital said it was treating a possible case.
The hospital has since confirmed that the female patient, who has a history of travel to west Africa, tested negative for the deadly virus.
Earlier, a Scottish Government spokesman said: "Scotland has a robust health protection surveillance system which monitors global disease outbreaks and ensures that we are fully prepared to respond to such situations."
Pauline Cafferkey was diagnosed with Ebola in December after volunteering work in Sierra Leone Last month a Scottish nurse, Pauline Cafferkey, from South Lanarkshire, became the first confirmed UK case of Ebola after she returned from Sierra Leone where she had been working with the charity Save the Children.
She is being treated at London's Royal Free Hospital and was in a critical condition although she has since improved.
Ebola is transmitted by direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person, such as blood, vomit or faeces.
The virus has killed more than 8,400 people, almost all in West Africa, since it broke out a year ago.
Woman tests 'negative' for Ebola
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