The Fort Hood soldier who was found dead outside his home in Killeen, Texas tested negative for the Ebola virus, The San Antonio Express-News reported on Tuesday.
Military medical personnel told the newspaper that preliminary tests for Ebola were negative, assuaging concerns that the soldier had died of the virus after returning on Jan. 7 from an Ebola-fighting mission in West Africa.
The 24-year-old soldier, who was not identified, was cleared completely after more comprehensive tests were performed, the newspaper reported.