American in Honduras checked for Ebola released from hospital

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - An American who was hospitalized in Honduras pending Ebola checks has been released from hospital, authorities said on Saturday, though he will be kept under watch for 21 days. The 66-year-old American had spent time in Liberia before coming to Honduras on March 11, authorities said. He was hospitalized on Friday in Comayagua, about an hour north of Tegucigalpa, with a fever. The vice minister of health, Francis Contreras, said the American did not have any symptoms of Ebola, but authorities are being extra careful because he came from a country that has been affected by the epidemic. "We strongly dismiss that as of now, we have a patient with Ebola in the country," Contreras told reporters. (Reporting by Gustavo Palencia; Writing by Joanna Zuckerman Bernstein; Editing by Simon Gardner and Alison Williams)