A Nigerian man is being tested for the deadly Ebola virus in Hong Kong, amid global fears over the potential spread of a disease which has claimed nearly 1,000 lives in west Africa this year. A city government spokesman confirmed that the 31-year-old man is currently quarantined at a hospital and is being tested to determine whether he had been infected. There will be results of the preliminary testing tonight," the government spokeswoman told AFP, adding the man is being treated at the city's Princess Margaret Hospital. A densely populated city of some seven million people, Hong Kong is particularly alert to the spread of viruses after Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome killed almost 300 people eleven years ago.
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