New Delhi: A 35-year-old man from Jodhpur admitted to AIIMS on Tuesday with symptoms similar to those of the Ebola virus disease died on Wednesday morning.

A Union health ministry statement said the person who died had no history of travel to Ebola-affected countries. The clinical sample of the patient shifted to AIIMS tested negative for Ebola virus disease as per tests conducted at the National Centre for Disease Control in the national capital.

AIIMS spokesperson Dr Amit Gupta said, “It is too early to say he was suffering from Ebola. In fact, there is very less chance of it. But he was definitely suffering from some viral hemorrhagic fever. He died of excessive internal bleeding on Wednesday morning. The final report will confirm the disease the patient was suffering from.”

Test samples of the patient have been also sent to the National Institute of Biology and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases. “The reports will come by next week,” said the AIIMS official.

The patient was admitted to the department of medicine with symptoms of high-grade fever and vomiting. Symptoms of hemorrhagic fevers are high temperature, headache, muscle pain, diarrhea, vomiting, stomach pain and external and internal bleeding.