The Health Ministry says a man who was being tested for the Ebola virus and was in critical condition in an isolation ward has died.

The ministry says the 40-year-old Saudi man died on Wednesday morning at a hospital in Jeddah.

He was hospitalized after showing symptoms of a viral hemorrhagic fever following a recent trip to Sierra Leone, where there has been an outbreak of Ebola.

The ministry says the man had tested negative for dengue fever.