A patient has been isolated at a Toronto hospital as a precautionary measure while doctors test for a “very unlikely” case of Ebola.
According to CBC News, the patient has a travel history to and from West Africa and had come down a fever.
“If you decide to test, you really have to treat them as if they have Ebola up until the point where that test comes back negative. So that’s what we’re doing now,” said University Health Network infection prevention and control director Michael Gardam to CP24.
“I’m personally not concerned at all that this person will have Ebola,” he said.
Hospital staff were informed about the case via an email on Thursday.
Early test results for the Toronto patient are expected Friday.
On Wednesday, federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose responded to Canadian concerns after a man was diagnosed with the virus at a Dallas hospital on Tuesday.
She insisted the chances of an Ebola outbreak in Canada remains low.
Approximately 3,300 people have died from what has been called the world’s worst Ebola outbreak.
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A girl cries outside the 'Island Clinic', a new Ebola treatment centre that opened in Monrovia after the death of her father and her mother by ebola on September 23, 2014.The first members of a team of 165 Cuban doctors and health workers have arrived in Sierra Leone to help the fight against Ebola, a health official said Tuesday. AFP PHOTO / ZOOM DOSSO (Photo credit should read ZOOM DOSSO/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ZOOM DOSSO via Getty Images)
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Health workers wearing protective suits await on September 23, 2014 outside the 'Island Clinic', a new Ebola treatment centre that opened in Monrovia. The first members of a team of 165 Cuban doctors and health workers have arrived in Sierra Leone to help the fight against Ebola, a health official said Tuesday. AFP PHOTO / ZOOM DOSSO (Photo credit should read ZOOM DOSSO/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ZOOM DOSSO via Getty Images)
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A resident sick from the ebola virus waits on September 23, 2014 outside 'Island Clinic', a new Ebola treatment centre that opened in Monrovia. The first members of a team of 165 Cuban doctors and health workers have arrived in Sierra Leone to help the fight against Ebola, a health official said Tuesday. AFP PHOTO / ZOOM DOSSO (Photo credit should read ZOOM DOSSO/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ZOOM DOSSO via Getty Images)
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A resident sick from the ebola virus waits on September 23, 2014 outside 'Island Clinic', a new Ebola treatment centre that opened in Monrovia. The first members of a team of 165 Cuban doctors and health workers have arrived in Sierra Leone to help the fight against Ebola, a health official said Tuesday. AFP PHOTO / ZOOM DOSSO (Photo credit should read ZOOM DOSSO/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ZOOM DOSSO via Getty Images)
The West African country of Liberia is crippled by a recent outbreak of the disease Ebola.(05 of22)
MONROVIA, LIBERIA-SEPTEMBER 20: The scene inside the Redemption Hospital which has become a transfer and holding center to intake Ebola patients located in one of the poorest neighborhoods of Monrovia that locals call 'New Kru Town on Saturday September 20, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. Health workers are overwhelm with a constant stream of new patients since the Ebola outbreak. On Friday there were 102 ebola related patients; nine died overnight and Today the hospital has 107 patients. Nine Ebola related deaths occurred overnight Friday but with Saturday admissions they are now holding 107. Liberians have been living under most extreme conditions as the Ebola virus worsens. (Photo by Michel du Cille/The Washington Post via Getty Images) (credit:The Washington Post via Getty Images)
In Liberia medical care for is restricted due to recent outbreak of the Ebola virus.(06 of22)
MONROVIA, LIBERIA-SEPTEMBER 19: Victor Fayiah, 40 (left) and his wife Comfort Fayiah, 32, seated on a mattress on the floor of a room with their twin girls, Faith (left) and Mercy (right) talk about their ordeal on September 19, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. Mercey was born 20 minutes later than Faith. Mom, Comfort went into labor and had twin girls on the ground in the yard of her church assisted by a local medic and a church mother because she could not get medical care; most hospitals and clinics were closed for non-Ebola treatment. The closed facilities are an attempt to protect medical staff and other patients from Ebola. (Photo by Michel du Cille/The Washington Post via Getty Images) (credit:The Washington Post via Getty Images)
The West African country of Liberia is crippled by a recent outbreak of the Ebola virus.(07 of22)
BONG, COUNTY, LIBERIA-SEPTEMBER 17: Elijah Kollie, 13, now an ebola patient steps onto the back of a waiting ambulance ( a pickup truck) to be taken to the Bong County Ebola Treatment Unit, on Wednesday September 17, 2014.The newly opened 50 bed unit is managed by International Medical Corp, and was built by Save the Children. On its second day of operation to it has 3 new patients; one patient died Monday night. (Photo by Michel du Cille/The Washington Post via Getty Images) (credit:The Washington Post via Getty Images)
The West African country of Liberia is crippled by a recent outbreak of the Ebola virus.(08 of22)
BONG COUNTY, LIBERIA-SEPTEMBER 17: James Dahn now an Ebola patient is handed oral rehydration solution by James Momoh, a health worker before being taken by ambulance (a pickup truck) to the Bong County Ebola Treatment Unit, on Wednesday September 17, 2014. The newly opened 50 bed unit is managed by International Medical Corp, and was built by Save the Children. .(Photo by Michel du Cille/The Washington Post via Getty Images) (credit:The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Liberian Red Cross health workers wearing protective suits arrive to carry away the body of an Ebola victim at the JFK ebola treatment center, on September 17, 2014, in Monrovia. Liberia has been hit hard by the Ebola epidemic, the worst in history, which has killed more than 2,400 people since it erupted earlier this year, according to World Health Organization. AFP PHOTO / ZOOM DOSSO (Photo credit should read ZOOM DOSSO/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ZOOM DOSSO via Getty Images)
The West African country of Liberia is crippled by a recent outbreak of the Ebola virus.(10 of22)
BONG COUNTY, LIBERIA - SEPTEMBER 16: The body of a 12 year-old boy is taken for the newly constructed morgue and then buried without ceremony near the Bong County Ebola Treatment Unit on Tuesday September 16, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. The boy died shortly after arriving by ambulance last night his father (Monday) who was immediately admitted and is being tested and treated. The newly opened 50 bed unit is managed by International Medical Corp, which was built by Save the Children. On its second day of operation to it has 3 new patients. (Photo by Michel du Cille/The Washington Post via Getty Images) (credit:The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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A woman carries the belongings of her husband who died after he was infected by the Ebola virus, on September 10, 2014 in a district of Monrovia. The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on September 8 that Liberia, already hardest-hit by the Ebola epidemic ravaging west Africa, should brace for thousands of new cases in the coming weeks. The country already accounts for half of the more than half of the 2,000 deaths across west Africa from the virus. AFP PHOTO / ZOOM DOSSO (Photo credit should read ZOOM DOSSO/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ZOOM DOSSO via Getty Images)
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A health worker, wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), arrives with a potentially contaminated patient on September 7, 2014 at Elwa hospital in Monrovia, which is run by the non-governmental French organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders -- MSF). US President Barack Obama said in an interview aired on September 7 the US military would help in the fight against fast-spreading Ebola in Africa, but warned it would be months before the epidemic slowed. The tropical virus, transmitted through contact with infected bodily fluids, has killed 2,100 people in four countries since the start of the year -- more than half of them in Liberia. AFP PHOTO / DOMINIQUE FAGET (Photo credit should read DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:DOMINIQUE FAGET via Getty Images)
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A health worker, wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), enters a decontamination airlock on September 7, 2014 at Elwa hospital in Monrovia, which is run by the non-governmental French organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders -- MSF). US President Barack Obama said in an interview aired on September 7 the US military would help in the fight against fast-spreading Ebola in Africa, but warned it would be months before the epidemic slowed. The tropical virus, transmitted through contact with infected bodily fluids, has killed 2,100 people in four countries since the start of the year -- more than half of them in Liberia. AFP PHOTO / DOMINIQUE FAGET (Photo credit should read DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:DOMINIQUE FAGET via Getty Images)
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Desinfected aprons and boots hang on September 7, 2014 at Elwa hospital in Monrovia, which is run by the non-governmental French organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders). US President Barack Obama said in an interview aired on September 7 the US military would help in the fight against fast-spreading Ebola in Africa, but warned it would be months before the epidemic slowed. The tropical virus, transmitted through contact with infected bodily fluids, has killed 2,100 people in four countries since the start of the year -- more than half of them in Liberia. AFP PHOTO / DOMINIQUE FAGET (Photo credit should read DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:DOMINIQUE FAGET via Getty Images)
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People walk in a street in Monrovia's West Point slum on September 6, 2014. The death toll from the Ebola epidemic has climbed above 2,000, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on September 5, as it voiced hopes a vaccine could be available in November. The deadly virus has claimed 2,097 lives out of 3,944 people infected in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, since emerging last December, the UN's health organ said after a two-day crisis meeting in Geneva. AFP PHOTO / DOMINIQUE FAGET (Photo credit should read DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:DOMINIQUE FAGET via Getty Images)
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A man pushes a wheelbarrow filled with food during a World Food Program (WFP) food distribution in Monrovia's West Point slum on September 6, 2014. The death toll from the Ebola epidemic has climbed above 2,000, the World Health Organisztion (WHO) said on September 5, as it voiced hopes a vaccine could be available in November. The deadly virus has claimed 2,097 lives out of 3,944 people infected in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, since emerging in December 2013, the UN's health organ said after a two-day crisis meeting in Geneva. AFP PHOTO / DOMINIQUE FAGET (Photo credit should read DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:DOMINIQUE FAGET via Getty Images)
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People stand around a man, right, suspected of suffering from the Ebola virus in a main street and busy part in Monrovia, Liberia, Friday, Sept. 12, 2014. A Western Kentucky University student has developed a way to track the Ebola virus outbreak. Armin Smailhodzic (smile-HO'-chih-itch) developed a smartphone app that uses Twitter data to track the virus. Western says the app could predict the spread of the virus.(AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A woman, center, reacts as she and others celebrate on the streets outside of West Point, that have been closed in by Liberian security forces to stop all movement the past week in a attempt to control the Ebola outbreak in Monrovia, Liberia, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014. Liberia says it will open up a slum in its capital where thousands of people were barricaded to contain the spread of Ebola. Information Minister Lewis Brown says lifting the quarantine Saturday morning will not mean there is no Ebola in the West Point Slum. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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People celebrate on the streets outside of West Point, which has been closed in by Liberian security forces to stop all movement the past week in a attempt to control the Ebola outbreak in Monrovia, Liberia, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014. Liberia says it will open up a slum in its capital where thousands of people were barricaded to contain the spread of Ebola. Information Minister Lewis Brown says lifting the quarantine Saturday morning will not mean there is no Ebola in the West Point Slum. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A man that was hired by the community sprays chemicals to try and prevent the spread of the Ebola virus, as local children look on, in Monrovia, Liberia, Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa eventually could exceed 20,000 cases, more than six times as many as are now known, the World Health Organization said Thursday. A new plan released by the U.N. health agency to stop Ebola also assumes that the actual number of cases in many hard-hit areas may be two to four times higher than currently reported.(AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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People stand on the shoreline near a sign reading 'NO DUMPING', amongst rubbish at West Point, a area heavily effected by the Ebola virus, with residence not being allowed to leave West Point, as government forces clamp down on movement to prevent the spread of Ebola, in Monrovia, Liberia, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. Health officials in Liberia said the other two recipients of ZMapp in Liberia â a Congolese doctor and a Liberian physician's assistant, have recovered. Both are expected to be discharged from an Ebola treatment center on Friday, said Dr. Moses Massaquoi, a Liberian doctor with the treatment team. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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People wait for Liberian security forces to allow them to deliver foodstuff to friends and family members in the West Point area that has been hardest hit by the Ebola virus spreading in Monrovia, Liberia, Monday, Aug. 25, 2014. A Liberian doctor who was among three Africans to receive an experimental Ebola drug has died, the country's information minister said Monday.(AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)