A woman who died of an apparent heart attack in a Brooklyn hair salon and was monitored for Ebola has tested negative for the disease.
USA Today reported that New York City health officials announced Wednesday morning that the 40-year-old victim did not have the virus.
"The test result this morning was negative," health department spokesman Levi Fishman wrote in an email.
The woman, whose name has not been released, did not show signs of having the virus, but was being monitored at the time of her death because she recently traveled from Guinea. The country is one of three West African nations along with Liberia and Sierra Leone that have been hit the hardest by the deadly disease.
The New York Times noted that fire officials said that they were called to the African Queen Hair Braiding beauty salon on Tuesday after the victim collapsed and went into cardiac arrest. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities then took blood samples from her for testing.
Ebola has stricken more than 14,000 people and claimed the lives of more than 5,000 people since March, making it the largest outbreak in history.