A New Zealand woman is awaiting the results of a test for the Ebola virus in an special isolation unit in Christchurch.
The health worker arrived home on March 8 from Sierra Leone where she'd been treating people with the virus.
She called the Christchurch public health officer when she became unwell on Friday morning.
She has been transferred from her Christchurch home by isolation-pod to a special isolation facility at Christchurch Hospital, one of four such facilities in New Zealand.
Ebola needed to be ruled out based on her symptoms, Health Minister Jonathan Coleman said.
"I am advised that it is quite possible they are suffering from gastroenteritis or some other illness such as malaria," he said in a statement
The woman's blood samples have been sent to a high security laboratory in Melbourne to be tested and the results are expected during the weekend.
The woman's partner is the only person who has been in direct contact with her during the potentially infectious period and is self-monitoring.
The woman would not have been infections while travelling, Dr Coleman said.
"Ebola is not easy to catch - transmission requires direct contact with an infected individual and only occurs through contact with blood and other body fluids."
New Zealand had carefully planned for this eventuality, he said.
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